About Us

 Fernando and Enriqueta Gómez were both born in Mexico in the early 1940s. They were married and sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in 1964. With the help of his wife, Fernando graduated as an electrical engineer from Brigham Young University in 1967. His professional life took place in Mexico and the Philippine Islands, where he contributed to developing and assembling semiconductors and magnetic heads for disk drives. He served his first LDS mission on the west coast of Mexico in 1964. While in the Philippines, he was called to serve as a Regional Representative from 1985 to 1990. The couple presided over the Mexico Merida Mission (1992-1995), the Missionary Training Center in Santiago, Chile (1998-2000), and the Merida Mexico Temple (2001-2004). They have four children, sixteen grandchildren, and seven great-grandchildren. 

Consuelo Gómez González, the aunt of museum founder Fernando Gómez, was born in the state of Hidalgo in 1896. She was educated in Methodist schools, where she graduated in 1919 as an educator and was employed in the school she attended. She met missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in 1923 and was baptized in 1925, causing her to lose employment in her former faith’s schools. She became a pillar of the early LDS Church in central Mexico. In the 1940s, she helped Bernabe Parra establish a private school, Heroes de Chapultepec. This made her a key figure in developing the LDS Church’s Educational System in Mexico in the 1960s. She developed her talent as a poet and published many poems in LDS publications for decades: The Vision of the Prophet and The Blind Men of our Branch. 

This museum documents the history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Mexico, focusing on the first generation of LDS converts to the Church. Initially located in Mexico City, it moved to its current location in Provo, UT, in 2011 and has served that area ever since. The Museum operates primarily through donations and the support of the Gómez family. The exhibits include the history of the “Mormon Colonies” in Mexico, the Third Convention movement, and the transnational relationship between the Salt Lake City church headquarters and the members of the church in Mexico, both Mexican citizens and transplants.

The museum is roughly 8,000 square feet of exhibits with wide walkways between the main floor and exhibits in the basement and 2nd floor.