This
evening we were in charge of the couples fireside here at Dukes
Ct. There were 50 people in attendance.
Br.
Khumbulani Mdletshe spoke to us about what it was like living during apartheid. He spoke of how as a youth he was so angry at
white people & thought
they were good for nothing and that they all needed to be pushed into
the ocean from where they came from. He
wanted retaliation for all the trouble
the whites had caused.
One day he met two
white missionaries. He was
scared of them and ran away but they coaxed him to come and talk to them. He felt their love and it was cool to feel
that towards a white person. He ended up joining the church & serving
a mission in England with
Rex J Pinegar as mission president.
At
the end of his mission,there
was alot of killing and violence here in So Africa so his mission pres
wouldn't let him come home to it and instead, sent him to BYU Hawaii!!!
Khumbulani got an education there and felt so
happy feeling loved
by so many races all living peacefully together. He was amazed by it. He got a job and there was a white secretary
who came to him one day
and said, "Khumbulani, why do you never give me any work to do?" He expained to her that he was from SA and black people never give orders
to white people.
Br. Khumbulani bore such a great
testimony of how much the gospel
completely changed his life for the better.
He might still be living
in the bush hating whites if not for the gospel. He expressed to all
of us that if there was anyone present with any prejudice or bad feelings
that it's just not worth it and to work on it.
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