I was converted in 1982 it was a few years later I read a book call a A Soul So Rebellious Soul it was about a black young lady from Chattanooga, Tennessee,and her encounter with the missioaries. She had join the Church a little before the July 1978 proclamation when all righteous males could join the pristhood reading her tell the story and that moment brought tears to my eyes too it was really a true jublilee in spirit of the Lord!
Proud, intelligent, stubborn, rebellious Mary Frances Sturlaugson was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the fifteenth child in a black family of twenty-four children. In this book Mary portrays vividly and forthrightly her struggle to survive in a hostile environment.
The first of her family to graduate from high school. She applies for, and is awarded, a full scholarship to Dakota Wesleyan University in South Dakota. A summer job on a nearby Indian reservation puts Mary in direct contact with the much-despised Mormon missionaries. Seeing her chance to vent her hatred for these whites, who represent, in her eyes, the epitome of racist propaganda, Mary takes them on in full-scale battle.......
[Romney says he wept when he learned of the overturning of the “rule” against black men in the Priesthood.]
That was mighty white of him. What was he doing before the sudden revelation in 1978, praying for the souls of evil black people?
[And [God] had caused the cursing to come upon them, yea, even a sore cursing, because of their iniquity. For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them. And thus saith the Lord God; I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities.” (2 Nephi 5:21)]