2009
New Mission Presidents Begin Service
July 2009


“New Mission Presidents Begin Service,” Liahona, July 2009, N6–N7

New Mission Presidents Begin Service

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

To be announced

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

Pennsylvania Harrisburg

To be announced

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

Missionaries in more than 100 missions around the world received new presidents this month.

© 2007 Hyun-Gyu Lee