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The Mormon Tabernacle Enquirer has found evidence of Moses
Mahlungu’s time travel in the pages of his journal. Key pages date from the late 70’s and early
80’s. At that time, Brother Mahlangu could
not attend church services in the building, but faithfully listened to the
meetings via a window opened precisely for that purpose.
The journal pages recount the agonizing despair that Moses
Mahlangu felt at that time. In one entry
he mentions how “today one of the talks was about how all are equal to a loving
God, and it was so difficult for me, because sometimes I feel like a second-class citizen.” The entry then added, “how is the Lord no
respecter of persons yet those who claim to follow God treat me as less than
them?”
It is precisely during the time when these messages are
strongest and most heartbreaking that Moses Mahlangu describes traveling to
the future “in a silver car with the doors going up like gull wings.” He
elaborates that there was a “crazy-looking driver, with wild gray hair” who took
him to a large building. In the
building, Brother Mahlangu found a man with “seemingly perfect gray hear,
speaking with love and power.”
Of this man’s talk, Brother Mahlangu wrote, “at first I was
surprised, since it was unusual for me to hear a man with a German accent speak
with such compassion and love.” Brother
Mahlangu continued, “I felt so strongly the influence of the Holy Spirit as he
spoke, and when he mentioned that there are times when leaders and members make
mistakes, I felt such relief.”
In the same entry, Brother Mahlangu said that “I had such an
outpouring of peace when he acknowledged that there may have been things said
and done that were not in harmony with the church’s values, principles, and
doctrine.” “By the end,” reported
Mahlangu, “I felt the desire to bring my talents and my differences to the
Church, and to bring them fully if the day ever comes that I could give them
completely.”
Brother Mahlangu seems to have never reported his time
travel to others. His journal only notes
that, “we had to return early from the weird trip since the guy had to pick up some kid and take him to the past or present or something, so I only heard one speaker.” As a final note Brother Mahlangu
said, “the church meeting that I visited in the future was wonderful, but I wonder who the other speakers were and what
they talked about?”
This man's story would make a great movie, I know it would be a relevant as all the other movies about church pioneers. It would be such a good thing to consider this, I hope that it is, from my lips to God's ears. Maybe Alex Boy'e could portray Moses Mahangu.
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I agree, Ramona, the original story would make a fine movie. Actually, an adapted form of Back to the Future with brother Mahlangu and Elder Uchtdorf would be awesome!
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