New Mission Presidents Begin Service Worldwide

The majority of the following new mission presidents and their wives began serving on or around July 1, 2009, as assigned by the First Presidency. The missions and their respective new presidents are:

Mission	New President
Argentina Bahía Blanca	Jorge Esteban Detlefsen
Argentina Neuquén	Darwin Franz Peterson
Australia Adelaide	Craig Kidd Poulton
Australia Sydney South	Jeffrey Ted Simmons
Belgium Brussels/Netherlands	Scott Mcdonald Brubaker
Brazil Belém	José Claudio Furtado Campos
Brazil Belo Horizonte	Adilson de Paula Parrella
Brazil Cuiabá	Cleto Pinheiro De Oliveira
Brazil Porto Alegre North	Edison Pavan
Brazil Porto Alegre South	Curtis Floyd Swenson
Brazil Salvador South	Helton Carlos Pimenta Vecchi
Brazil São Paulo East	Joaquim Jorge Oliveira Moreira
Brazil Teresina	Mario Aparecido Dias
Bulgaria Sofia	Gerold Roth
California Oakland	David Gary Wade
California San Fernando	Jerald Lynn Martin
California Santa Rosa	Jonathon Wayne Bunker
Cambodia Phnom Penh	Scott Brunson Smedley
Canada Calgary	Alan Lee Archibald
Canada Halifax	Craig Winger Simpson
Chile Santiago East	Larry Roberts Laycock
Chile Viña del Mar	Richard William Gillespie
China Hong Kong	Simon Yue-Sang Chan
Colombia Bogota North	Joseph Grant Hacking
Colombia Bogota South	Justo Pausides Casablanca
Costa Rica San José	Sam Minó Gálvez Orellana
Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa	Michael Steven Headlee
Dominican Republic Santiago	Miguel Alfredo Lee Bruno
England Birmingham	John Charles Ogden
England London	Renn Matthew Patch
England London South	Lyle Eric Shamo
Georgia Atlanta	Steven Homer Satterfield
Germany Berlin	Jay Douglas Pimentel
Greece Athens	Christopher Charles
Haiti Port-au-Prince	Hardwarson Kerving Joseph
Honduras Comayagüela	Manuel Antonio Flores Batres
Hungary Budapest	Gary Scott Baughman
Idaho Pocatello	Scott W Colton
Illinois Chicago North	Sherman Leroy Doll
India New Delhi	William King Jackson
Jamaica Kingston	Rick Graff
Japan Fukuoka	Sherman Kay Margetts
Japan Tokyo	William Steve Albrecht
Korea Seoul	Yong Hwan Lee
Madagascar Antananarivo	Sean Edmund Russell Donnelly
Marshall Islands Majuro	Bradley Jay Smith
Maryland Baltimore	Alma Brent Belliston
Massachusetts Boston	William Thornley Evans
Mexico Cuernavaca	Alin Spannaus
Mexico Guadalajara	Lazaro Saucedo Sosa
Mexico Guadalajara South	John Douglas Jesperson
Mexico Hermosillo	Sergio Velez Chavez
Mexico Mexico City South	Aaron Chavez Carpio
Mexico Monterrey West	Brent Wayne Romney
Mexico Tampico	Stanton Lynn Call
Montana Billings	Larry Higbee Gardner
Mozambique Maputo	Loren Blake Spendlove
Nebraska Omaha	Milan Foster Kunz
New York New York North	Richard Fred Smith
New York New York South	William Henrick Nelson
North Carolina Raleigh	Dirk A. Cotterell
Norway Oslo	Armand Duane Johansen
Ohio Cleveland	Darwin Dean Sorensen
Oklahoma Tulsa	Richard Edgar Merkley
Papua New Guinea Port Moresby	Meliula Meafou Fata
Paraguay Asunción	Mark James Callan
Peru Lima Central	Stephen Hunter Tyler
Peru Lima South	Roger Christensen Manning
Peru Piura	John Jensen Chipman
Philippines Bacolod	George Javier Tobias
Philippines Baguio	Thomas Henry Jensen
Philippines Laoag	Allistair Bruce Odgers
Portugal Lisbon	Moroni Bing Torgan
Portugal Porto	Charles Wesley Walton
Russia Moscow West	Kenneth Musser Woolley
Russia Novosibirsk	Jon Charles Trejo
Russia Rostov-na-Donu	Vladimir Aleksandrovich Nechiporov
Russia Vladivostok	Michael Stephen Pratt
Russia Yekaterinburg	Bruce Howard Allcott
Scotland Edinburgh	Gary King Griffiths
Singapore	Terrence Andrew Clark
South Dakota Rapid City	Jay Glen Layton
Spain Barcelona	Clark Bryant Hinckley
Spain Bilbao	Richard Reed Clegg
Spain Madrid	James Stanford Watkins
Switzerland Geneva	Kent Hyrum Murdock
Taiwan Taipei	Terence Elial Grimley
Texas Houston South	Gregory Mark Saylin
Thailand Bangkok	Michael Sherrod Smith
Ukraine Dnepropetrovsk	Dale Edwin Nielsen
Uruguay Montevideo	Ernesto Antonio Da Silva Bornholdt
Utah Ogden	Richard Brent Olson
Utah Provo	Neil Edward Pitts
Venezuela Barcelona	Edgar Lopez Delgado
Venezuela Maracaibo	Sergio Luis Krasnoselsky
Washington DC South	George Mark Albright
Washington Spokane	Stanley Mark Palmer
West Indies	Claude Remy Gamiette
Zimbabwe Harare	Edward Dube

Changes Made to Missions

Along with changes to mission presidents in more than 100 missions, the Church has made changes that will affect six missions in Brazil and two in Pennsylvania, USA.

The new Brazil Teresina Mission was organized from portions of the Brazil Belém and Brazil Fortaleza Missions.

The Brazil Belo Horizonte and Brazil Belo Horizonte East Missions were consolidated into a single Brazil Belo Horizonte Mission.

The headquarters of the Brazil Rio de Janeiro North Mission was moved to Vitoria, and the mission was renamed the Brazil Vitoria Mission.

In the United States, the Pennsylvania Harrisburg Mission was consolidated into the Pennsylvania Pittsburgh Mission.