A Documentary History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Mexico

In this volume, Fernando R. Gomez, the founder of the Museum of Mormon Mexican History and an emeritus general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, offers two things. The first is a new narrative of the history of the Church in Mexico, from the earliest missionaries and Anglo settlers through the Convention movements of the 1930s and 1940s, when possible schism in the Church was averted. Gomez focuses primarily on Spanish-speaking members of the Mexican church, shifting the focus from the Anglo colonies in northern Mexico that much English-language history has dwelled on, and in so doing he offers a revisionist take on the causes and resolution of the Conventions. Second, Gomez offers here a treasure trove of primary sources, in his own translations and transcriptions. Many of these sources have never been available in English before, and certainly not as accessible as they are here. This book is essential for anybody interested in the globalization of Mormonism.

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