New Mission Presidents Begin Service

More than one-third of the missions worldwide will receive a new mission president this year. One hundred and twenty-two mission presidents will begin their new assignments on or around July 1. The total number of missions worldwide is now 339, the newest being the Mozambique Maputo Mission, which was created on January 1, 2005.

Mission	New President
Alaska Anchorage	Randy C. Lewis
Albania Tirana	Paul D. Clayton
Argentina Buenos Aires West	Alfonso Ramos
Argentina Mendoza	Juan C. Ávila
Argentina Resistencia	Donald V Shakespear
Argentina Rosario	Richard C. Hutchison
Argentina Salta	Israel Rubalcava
Arizona Phoenix	C. Scott Gill
Arizona Tucson	Douglas F. Higham
Arkansas Little Rock	Gary N. Batchelor
Baltic	Russell N. Watterson
Bolivia Cochabamba	Ronald E. Dalene
Brazil Brasília	Marcos A. Aidukaitis
Brazil Florianópolis	Lamonte J. Dansie Jr.
Brazil Fortaleza	Victor A. da Silva
Brazil Maceió	B. Bruce Muir
Brazil Manaus	Paulo H. Itinose
Brazil Recife	Mark B. Woodruff
Brazil Ribeirão Prêto	R. Blair Condie
Brazil Rio de Janeiro	Milton H. Brinton
Brazil Rio de Janeiro North	João L. Oppe
Brazil Salvador	Jarbas F. Souza
Brazil São Paulo Interlagos	Dale H. Bradford
Brazil São Paulo North	Michael J. Bertasso
Brazil São Paulo South	Jose A. Teixeira
California Anaheim	Randall G. Harmsen
California Arcadia	Stephen W. Owen
California Fresno	John C. Beck
California Riverside	Robert A. Ewer
California Roseville	Lee T. Perry
California Sacramento	R. Randall Huff
California San Diego	Robert N. Packer
California San Jose	Oscar W. McConkie III
California Ventura	Richard M. Ellsworth
Canada Montreal	Alain A. Petion
Canada Toronto East	Tad R. Callister
Canada Vancouver	Anthony W. Middleton Jr.
Chile Osorno	Carl R. Faulkner
Chile Santiago North	Kevin R. Duncan
Colombia Cali	Horacio J. Nieto
Colorado Colorado Springs	Robert S. Fotheringham
Colorado Denver North	W. Dea Montague Jr.
Connecticut Hartford	Van R. Johnson
Croatia Zagreb	Douglas L. Weight
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East	Juan A. García
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West	Larry K. Bair
Democratic Republic of Congo Kinshasa	William W. Maycock
Ecuador Guayaquil North	Randall L. Ridd
Ecuador Quito	José F. Lara
El Salvador San Salvador East	Ricky D. Jones
El Salvador San Salvador West	Robert D. Call
England Manchester	Theodore M. Jacobsen
Fiji Suva	Ian S. Ardern
Finland Helsinki	Phillip Estes
Florida Fort Lauderdale	Noel B. Reynolds
France Paris	Steven H. Pond
France Toulouse	J. Craig Merrell
Georgia Macon	R. Brent Evanson
Germany Frankfurt	K. Eugene Webb
Germany Munich/Austria	Holger D. Rakow
Guatemala Guatemala City Central	Hugo E. Martínez
Guatemala Guatemala City North	Thomas R. Coleman
Guatemala Guatemala City South	Ronald R. Bennion
Guatemala Quetzaltenango	César A. Morales
Honduras Tegucigalpa	Scott D. Farrell
Italy Catania	W. Bryan Colton
Ivory Coast Abidjan	Lindsay T. Dil
Japan Hiroshima	Akira Yafuso
Japan Sapporo	Yoshikazu Yokoyama
Japan Sendai	Asao Miyashita
Japan Tokyo South	Valten J. Tucker
Kentucky Louisville	Dennis C. Brimhall
Korea Busan	Pyung-Jong Song
Louisiana Baton Rouge	Douglas H. Patterson
Mexico Guadalajara	Gary L. Heaton
Mexico Mexico City North	Ricardo E. Castillo
Mexico Oaxaca	Jesús A. Ortiz
Mexico Puebla	J. Phil Freestone
Mexico Tijuana	Brian B. Carmack
Mexico Torreón	Richard J. Hogan
Mexico Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Clifford L. Whetten
Mexico Veracruz	Lester F. Johnson
Michigan Lansing	Dean C Edwards
Minnesota Minneapolis	R. Lloyd Smith
Missouri Independence	James L. Hacking
Mozambique Maputo	Lynn P. Wallace*
Nevada Las Vegas	John J. Wadsworth
New Jersey Morristown	Stephen K. Parkinson
New Zealand Auckland	Carl B. Cook
New Zealand Wellington	G. Michael Finnigan
Nigeria Port Harcourt	Edgar L. Stone
Ohio Columbus	Russell S. Gilliland
Oregon Eugene	Daniel B. Fugal
Oregon Portland	Van C. Gessel
Pennsylvania Harrisburg	Jerrald M Jensen
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	Jay K. Francis
Peru Lima East	Michael R Lindstrom
Philippines Angeles	Robert J. Stringham
Philippines Cebu	Leonard M Anderson
Philippines Davao	Moises M. Mabunga Jr.
Philippines Manila	David E. LeSueur
Philippines Olongapo	Craig A. Burtenshaw
Philippines San Pablo	Gerald E. Mortimer
Philippines Tacloban	Richard J. Trask
România Bucharest	John H. Ashby
Russia Yekaterinburg	Gregory A. Schwitzer
Samoa Apia	Paul B. Price
South Africa Cape Town	John C. Nelson
South Africa Johannesburg	James A. Bowden
South Carolina Columbia	Kenneth E. Brailsford
Sweden Stockholm	Jan Åke Karlsson
Tahiti Papeete	T. Marama Tarati
Tennessee Knoxville	Ronald S Godfrey
Tennessee Nashville	Mark O. Lords
Texas Dallas	Bart C. Warner
Texas Houston	Travis L. Steward
Texas Houston East	Michael S. Lake
Texas Lubbock	D. Brent Rose
Ukraine Donetsk	Dale E. Andersen
Ukraine Kiev	R. Kim Davis
Venezuela Caracas	Danilo A. Paredes
Washington Tacoma	Kevin W. Pearson
West Virginia Charleston	Joseph F. Cowley Jr.
* Began service on January 1, 2005, when mission was created.