New Mission Presidents Now in Place

Accepting assignments from the First Presidency, 124 new mission presidents began serving on or around July 1, 2008. The missions and their respective new presidents are:

Mission	New President
Alaska Anchorage	Alan Roy Dance
Albania Tirana	John Martin Neil
Argentina Buenos Aires West	Evrett Wade Benton
Argentina Mendoza	James Blaine Lindahl
Argentina Resistencia	Jorge Luis del Castillo
Argentina Rosario	Jorge Marcial Villalba
Argentina Salta	Dan Northcutt
Arizona Phoenix	Paul Sherman Beck
Arizona Tucson	Wesley Paul Walker
Arkansas Little Rock	Robert Wyman Drewes
Baltic	Douglas Leon Dance
Bolivia Cochabamba	Miguel Angel Tenorio Dominguez
Brazil Brasilia	Gelson Pizzirani
Brazil Florianopolis	Walter Guedes Queiroz Jr.
Brazil Fortaleza	Alan Charles Batt
Brazil Maceió	Gary Ray Beynon
Brazil Manaus	David Woodward Jayme
Brazil Recife	Mário Hélio Emerick
Brazil Ribeirão Preto	Ricardo Vieira
Brazil Rio de Janeiro	Antonio Kaulle Machado Bezerra
Brazil Rio de Janeiro North	Scott Warren Pickett
Brazil Salvador	Carlos Roberto Toledo
Brazil São Paulo Interlagos	Christopher George Jackson
Brazil São Paulo North	Jeffry Lynn Cooley
Brazil São Paulo South	Stephen Darrow Richardson
California Anaheim	Steven Bennett Watrous
California Arcadia	Oscar Arthur Pike
California Fresno	John Arthur Gonzalez
California Riverside	Melvyn Kemp Reeves
California Roseville	Mark James Pendelton
California Sacramento	James Stuart Jardine
California San Diego	Lee Leonard Donaldson
California San Jose	Eric Michael Jackson
California Ventura	Wayne Dale Murri
Canada Toronto East	Chris Allan Eyre
Canada Vancouver	Kent Kruger Nelson
Cape Verde Praia	Joselito Medina Costa Neves
Chile Concepción South	Joe Neil Swenson
Chile Osorno	Kenneth David Lovell
Chile Santiago North	Michael Edward May
Colombia Cali	Edgar Nain Bolivar Forero
Colorado Colorado Springs	Brian Loyal Pfile
Colorado Denver North	Gary Gail Ely
Connecticut Hartford	Hugh Gary Pehrson
Cote d’Ivoire Abidjan	Yapo Ayekoue
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo East	Guillermo Arturo Antivilo Rojas
Dominican Republic Santo Domingo West	Juan Evangelista Almonte
Ecuador Guayaquil North	Jose Wilson Gamboa Galvez
Ecuador Quito	Timothy Quinn Sloan
El Salvador San Salvador East	Alex Moroni Perez Ulin
El Salvador San Salvador West/Belize	Alejandro Lopez Mota
England Manchester	David John Bullock
Fiji Suva	William Orval Ostler
Finland Helsinki	David Blaine Brown
Florida Fort Lauderdale	J. Nathan Hale
France Paris	Don Hansen Staheli
France Toulouse	Michel Joseph Jules Carter
Georgia Atlanta North	Steven Douglas King
Georgia Macon	Mark Oliver Bowman
Germany Frankfurt	Kevin John Ninow
Germany Munich/Austria	Robert Gideon Condie
Ghana Accra	Byron Lindsey Smith
Ghana Cape Coast	Melvin Burns Sabey
Guatemala Guatemala City Central	Richard Allen Baldwin Jr.
Guatemala Guatemala City North	David Jaime Torres Rodriguez
Guatemala Guatemala City South	Herbert Edgardo Alvarado Renderos
Guatemala Quetzaltenango	Ramón Darío Lorenzana Reyes
Honduras Tegucigalpa	Luis Gerardo Chaverri Madrigal
Japan Hiroshima	Yoshiaki Isa
Japan Kobe	William Arthur McIntyre Jr.
Japan Sapporo	Lee Alford Daniels
Japan Sendai	Reid Tateoka
Kentucky Louisville	Steven George Glende
Korea Busan	Kenneth Wayne Jennings Jr.
Louisiana Baton Rouge	William George Woods
México México City North	Daryl Nancollas
México Oaxaca	Leobardo De La Cruz Rosales
México Puebla	Steven Glen Rex
México Tijuana	Robert Hernan Heyn
México Torreón	Bruce Richard Clark
México Tuxtla Gutiérrez	Guillermo Velasco Coronado
México Veracruz	Jay Peter Hansen
Michigan Lansing	Marc Ducloux Jones
Minnesota Minneapolis	Mark Douglas Howell
Missouri Independence	George Johan William Van Komen
Nevada Las Vegas	Peter Kevin Christensen
New Jersey Morristown	A. Lee Bahr
New Zealand Auckland	Benson Lee Porter
New Zealand Wellington	Clive Richard Jolliffe
Nigeria Enugu	Jerry Reid Boggess
Nigeria Lagos East	Spencer Bennion Jones
Nigeria Lagos West	Gary Leslie Neuder
Ohio Columbus	Robert Forrest Jensen
Oregon Eugene	Thomas William Macdonald
Oregon Portland	Timothy John Dyches
Pennsylvania Pittsburgh	Lane Alma Summerhays
Peru Lima East	Juan Augusto Leyva Ponce
Philippines Angeles	Rudy Burt Puzey
Philippines Cebu	Darrel Parke Hansen
Philippines Davao	Jairus Cinco Perez
Philippines Manila	Mark James Howard
Philippines Olongapo	Dave Advincula Aquino
Philippines San Pablo	Richard Edwin Anderson
Philippines Tacloban	Edwin Valencia Malit
România Bucharest	James Scott Lundberg
Russia St Petersburg	Gennady Nikolaevich Podvodov
Samoa Apia	Otto Vincent Haleck Jr.
Slovenia/Croatia	David Henry Hill
South Africa Cape Town	Randall K Probst
South Africa Johannesburg	David Edward Poulsen
South Carolina Columbia	Stephen Lowell McConkie
Sweden Stockholm	Larry Ernest Anderson
Tahiti Papeete	Matthew Artell Smith
Tennessee Knoxville	James Ermon Griffin
Tennessee Nashville	Gary Lynn Hutchings
Texas Dallas	Barry Morgan Smith
Texas Houston	Todd Bailey Hansen
Texas Houston East	Dan Edward Moldenhauer
Texas Lubbock	John Lee Robison
Ukraine Donetsk	Timothy Lee Fry
Ukraine Kyiv	Lane Orin Steinagel
Venezuela Caracas	Freddy Valentin Herrera Molina
Washington Tacoma	Harvey Kent Bowen
West Virginia Charleston	Michael William Thornock

Missionaries in 124 missions received new presidents this year.