Tagged with "Mexico"
Closure of LDS Church school 'an opportunity'
MR says: This school will be replaced by the new MTC in Mexico City. Many residents were saddened to hear about the closure, but the educational foundation that manages the funds believes they can still make a difference for students. When leaders from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints...
Missionary surge prompts LDS Church to open new MTC in Mexico
MR says: WOW. This is meant to be the Church's second-largest MTC. The surge of new full-time missionaries entering its existing Missionary Training Centers has prompted The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to announce it will close a high school it operates in Mexico City and convert it into an...
Exhibit celebrates first Mexican Latter-day Saints in Utah
Tears rolled down the cheeks of adults and young people alike as they traded hugs and kisses at the Zuñiga family's reunion. It was a meeting that was intended to revive the history of their ancestors, who came to Utah from Mexico about 100 years ago. That history has been reconstructed,...
Stanford Football video features returned LDS missionary
MR says: Skip ahead to 2:15. What a great example this kid is.
Temple groud breaking in Tijuana, Mexico
MR says: Love that the architecture of the temple will reflect the style of Spanish colonial churches. Breaking ground, whether for a new crop of corn or a new temple, is an act of faith. And on Saturday, Aug. 18, some 2,000 Latter-day Saints gathered in East Tijuana to dedicate the site of a new temple and...
Finding refuge in El Paso
MR says: LDS colonists' 1912 exodus from Mexico is commemorated. Through the darkness of hardship and oppression in early Church history there are, here and there, beams of light wherein the Latter-day Saints benefitted from the humanitarianism and charity of others. One such episode occurred precisely a...
LDS Church sets groundbreaking for Tijuana Mexico Temple
Construction is about to begin on the new Tijuana Mexico Temple. This comes as a relief for members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in northern Mexico who must cross the U.S.-Mexico border to worship in the church's San Diego California Temple. The church's First Presidency...
Tijuana temple groundbreaking
MR says: Good news! A groundbreaking ceremony for the Tijuana Mexico Temple will be held Aug. 18 at 9 a.m., the Temple Department announced this week. The ceremony will be broadcast via satellite to stake centers in the temple district. The temple district comprises 10 stakes and one mission, with a total...
Mexican LDS entrepreneurs reap rewards
There has never been anything like this before among Mexican LDS Entrepreneurs. They came from branches and wards from all over the country, June 8-9, to compete for cash prizes, display their businesses, and swap stories of their successes and failures. While their businesses ranged in size and...
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
MR 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 each day, posted on the mirror with tape, handwritten and without mistakes. Its title:...
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...
LDS Church launches first international Newsroom site
MR 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...
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