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50 years ago
Mexico was divided into two missions by Elder Harold B. Lee and Elder Spencer W. Kimball, then members of the Quorum of the Twelve, on June 10, 1956, according to the June 23, 1956, Church News.
Mexico now has 20 missions, more than a million members in 199 stakes, and 12 temples, according to the 2006 Church Almanac.
The 1956 mission division essentially split the country in half on an east-west line north of Mexico City. The new mission was named the Northern Mexican Mission with headquarters in Monterrey. It had just more than 3,000 members in 30 branches. The Mexican Mission to the south, with headquarters in Mexico City, had more than 6,000 members, according to the article.
The mission changes were made during a missionwide conference at the Ermita Branch meetinghouse in Mexico City. More than 1,200 members, missionaries and friends filled the building to overflowing, the article stated.
Elder Lee and Elder Kimball subsequently toured each mission.
