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Saints in Mexico Learn from Apostle’s Visit
Mexico holds a special place in the history of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The first Mormon missionaries to visit Mexico in 1876 found a people ready to hear the gospel, and in 2004 Mexico became the first country outside the United States to reach a membership of 1,000,000...
General conference becomes real in Mexico City
One of the greatest blessings that the gospel can bring into our lives is the ability to eliminate the perception of other cultures. This was taught to my family and I while we lived in Mexico City, Mexico. It during the general conferences where we realized just how powerful the gospel is for...
Mormons in Mexico confront violence with hope and faith
Mormon Life says: Wow. Just wow.
In the mirror of a humble room in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Laura Cardenas posted a note with her wish list, little objectives that would motivate her to be better. There the list stared back at her...
Elder Ballard makes visit to Cuernavaca, Mexico
Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of the Twelve and Elder Jay E. Jensen of the Presidency of the Seventy were in Cuernavaca, Mexico, Sept. 10-11 to hold priesthood leadership training, missionary meetings and stake conferences. They were joined by Elders Benjamin De Hoyos of the Seventy and...
LDS members in Mexico confront violence with hope and faith
In the mirror of a humble room in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Laura Cardenas posted a note with her wish list, little objectives that would motivate her to be better. There the list stared back at her each day, posted on the mirror with tape, handwritten and without mistakes, its title: “Short term and...
LDS Church launches first international Newsroom site
Mormon Life says: Mexico has received an official LDS Newsroom site--the first international news site from the Church.
Nearly one year has passed since the launch of the most recent redesign of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ Newsroom website. This week, Newsroom took another step forward in its Web...
6 million records added to Mexico collections on FamilySearch
More than 6 million images were added to five Mexico collections on FamilySearch.org this week. Additions were also made to collections from six other countries, including more than 500,000 parish register records from England and more than 250,000 images from Belgium, Oost–Vlaanderen, Parish...
The remarkable story of Guillermo Gonzalez, a Mormon pioneer in Mexico
Mormon Life says: The little-known story of an amazing missionary.
A serene, peaceful feeling filled the room as the sister missionary shared her tender testimony in Spanish to conclude the religious discussion. The young husband and wife seated nearby looked at...
Seven sisters shine their light in the mission field
In Job 38:31, the Lord tells Job He bound the Pleiades together. Pleiades, or the Seven Sisters, is a constellation of seven stars that are so far away their light needs 350 years to reach the Earth, according to astronomers.Marisol (Chile Osorno), Antonia (Argentina Resistencia), Daniela (Costa...
Museum established for Mexican Mormon history
A new museum in Provo is designed to provide another way for people to learn about church history. The Museo de Historia del Mormonismo, or the Mexican Mormon History Museum, opened in Provo earlier this month. It is an extension of the MMMH in Mexico City, established to collect, preserve and...
Calderón’s rep will review request to suspend LDS missionary visas
The office of Felipe Calderón has acknowledged receipt of a Latino activist’s letter urging Mexico’s president to suspend visas to missionaries until The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints takes a stronger public stance against enforcement-only immigration legislation. Raul Lopez-Vargas...
Group seeks to ban Mormon missionaries in Mexico
A small group of Latino Utah residents wants the president of Mexico to suspend the visas of Mormon missionaries until the LDS Church takes a stronger stand on the immigration issue. Raúl López-Vargas says he has collected about 100 signatures on a petition that he plans to deliver to the...
Ban on Mormon missionaries to Mexico sought
A letter to Mexican president Felipe Calderon requesting that visas for Mormon missionaries to Mexico be temporarily suspended looks set to rachet up further Utah's fiery rhetoric on immigration.The letter, written in Spanish, dated February 9 and signed "Mexican citizens based in the state of...
No Photos Please
As Americans we are used to a tremendous amount of independent thinking. This translates into American tourists frequently ignoring the request at the Egyptian Museum in Cairo or in the tombs of the pharaohs in the Valley of the Kings to refrain from taking pictures with cameras or cell phones. My...
