8 New Temple Presidents Announced; Additional Temple Updates Reported

Hello again, everyone! The Church News has continued to share biographies of new temple presidents called by the First Presidency who will begin serving later this year, with a new article sharing biographies of 8 others called to so serve. All of the temples which received new presidents with this announcement were on my list.

Among the newest batch of those called are: 1 former area seventy, 1 current counselor in the presidency of the temple for which he will assume oversight, 1 former counselor in the presidency of the same temple for which he will assume oversight, 1 current mission president, and several who are currently ordinance workers and/or current or former stake presidents and bishops.

With these newly-called temple presidents, the total number of those called to serve this year thus far has gone up to 49. and in addition to the 4 new temples that will be dedicated within the next year, there are 19 other temples left on my personal list of those that are most likely to have a new president called this year. An updated copy of that list follows below.

New presidents have been called for the following temples:

1.      Copenhagen Denmark

2.      Manila Philippines (not anticipated; current president has only served for two years)

3.      Tampico Mexico

4.      Philadelphia Pennsylvania

5.      Spokane Washington

6.      Manhattan New York

7.      Columbia River Washington

8.      St. Paul Minnesota

9.      Jordan River Utah

10.  Medford Oregon

11.  Rexburg Idaho

12.  Provo Utah

13.  London England

14.  Tegucigalpa Honduras (not anticipated; current president has only served for one year)

15.  Johannesburg South Africa

16.  Fort Collins Colorado

17.  Panama City Panama

18.  Nauvoo Illinois

19.  Suva Fiji (not anticipated; current president has only served for one year)

20.  Paris France (not anticipated; current president has only served for two years)

21.  Dallas Texas

22.  Guadalajara Mexico

23.  Gilbert Arizona

24.  Detroit Michigan

25.  Anchorage Alaska

26.  Twin Falls Idaho

27.  Sapporo Japan

28.  Kyiv Ukraine

29.  Columbus Ohio

30.  Calgary Alberta (not anticipated; current president has only served for two years)

31.  Tuxtla Gutierrez Mexico

32.  Ciudad Juarez Mexico

33.  Monterrey Mexico

34.  Idaho Falls Idaho

35.  Orlando Florida

36.  Halifax Nova Scotia

37.  Mexico City Mexico

38.  Santiago Chile

39.  Nashville Tennessee

40.  Merida Mexico

41.  Star Valley Wyoming

42.  Winter Quarters Nebraska

43.  Portland Oregon

44.  Montreal Quebec

45.  Santo Domingo Dominican Republic

46.  Seattle Washington

47.  Campinas Brazil

48.  Perth Australia

49.  Curitiba Brazil

The first presidents will likely be announced for the following new temples:

1.      Arequipa Peru

2.      Rio de Janeiro Brazil

3.      Winnipeg Manitoba

4.      Abidjan Côte d'Ivoire

List of currently-operating temples which may be getting a new president in 2019:

1.      Aba Nigeria

2.      Birmingham Alabama

3.      Chicago Illinois

4.      Cochabamba Bolivia

5.      Fresno California

6.      Hamilton New Zealand (Note: It is possible that the Church could hold off on calling a new president for this temple until its’ rededication is held in 2021)

7.      Hartford Connecticut

8.      Hong Kong China (Note: It is possible that the Church could hold off on calling a new president for this temple until its’ rededication in 2021 or 2022)

9.      Lima Peru

10.  Melbourne Australia

11.  Memphis Tennessee (Note: Since the current president of this temple had his service interrupted by its’ renovation, the Church could hold off another year or two on replacing him.)

12.  Nuku’alofa Tonga

13.  Oklahoma City Oklahoma (Note: Since the current president of this temple had his service interrupted by its’ renovation, the Church could hold off another year or two on replacing him.)

14.  Raleigh North Carolina (Note: Since the current president of this temple had his service interrupted by its’ renovation, the Church could hold off another year or two on replacing him.)

15.  Reno Nevada

16.  Seoul Korea

17.  St. George Utah (Note: Since this temple is scheduled to close for renovation later this year, the Church could hold off on calling a new president until the renovation is complete)

18.  Veracruz Mexico

19.  Washington D.C. (Note: Since the current president of this temple had his service interrupted by its’ renovation, the Church could hold off another year or two on replacing him.)

I would have ended my post before including that list, but I have some temple updates to share as well. First, new information received today indicates that the completion of the Durban South Africa Temple is now anticipated to occur in either late 2019 or early 2020, and the completion of the Rio de Janeiro Brazil Temple has now been pushed back to early 2020.  For the Yigo Guam, Praia Cabo Verde, San Juan Puerto Rico, and Quito Ecuador Temples, the temple sites have been officially cleared for their groundbreaking ceremonies.

And at the Lima Peru Los Olivos Temple site, the demolition of the institute building and meetinghouse is nearing completion as well. As for temples undergoing renovation, new information on the Raleigh North Carolina and Baton Rouge Louisiana Temples indicate that those processes are now anticipated to conclude in late 2019 rather than mid-to-late 2019.  Additionally, new information on the Washington DC Temple indicates that the completion of its' renovation process is anticipated in the latter half of 2020, which more or less confirms my previously-offered estimate of mid-to-late 2020.

Until further information indicates otherwise, I also stand by my previously-offered estimate of early-to-mid 2020 for the Tokyo Japan Temple, and mid-to-late 2020 for the Mesa Arizona Temple. And I still strongly suspect that the Mesa Arizona Temple's renovation will be completed prior to the completion of renovation work on the Washington DC Temple. I also continue to stand by my estimate of early-to-mid 2021 for the completion of the renovation of the Hamilton New Zealand Temple.

It appears that I will have to yet again revisit my estimates for known temple events very soon, and I will be sure to publish that here once that process is complete. I also have a half-dozen or so other projects still pending for this blog in the near future, but have had to defer work on those while I continue to recover from my procedure and deal with additional illness. I will be updating you all on my progress on those projects as I figure it all out.

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-addded content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

Current Apostolic Statistics: Part Two—Updated Ages, Averages & Apostolic Nonagenarians

Hello again, everyone! I am back again now with the second part of this apostolic update, in which we will move on to talk specifics regarding the long-form and decimal ages of our current apostles, which will also include updated information on the average ages of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the 15 apostles as a group, and current and future nonagenarians. So let’s get right into all of that. Again, all data is current as of today (Sunday April 28, 2019).

There have been no apostolic birthdays since my last update (which was posted on Sunday March 10 of this year). The next apostolic birthday (President Eyring’s 86^th) will not occur until the last day in May. 15 days after that (on June 15) Elder Bednar will observe his 67^th birthday. With this update being posted a week later than planned, and the next one moved back as a result of that, I am planning to post that next update on Sunday June 16. The next apostolic birthdays will not take place until August, and will be detailed more fully closer to the time (in the update which is now planned for Sunday August 4.)

Having noted that, we now move on to some exact figures about the ages and average ages of the First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and all 15 apostles as a group. In the Church’s leading Quorum, President Nelson is, as noted towards the end of my previous post, 94 years, 7 months, and 19 days old, with a resulting decimal age of 94.63 years. First Counselor President Oaks is now 86 years, 8 months, and 16 days old, or 86.71 years. The junior member of the First Presidency, President Eyring, is now 85 years, 10 months, and 28 days old, which is 85.91 in decimal years.

The First Presidency thus now has a combined 267.25 years of life experience, which results in an average age for each man of 89.08 years. President Nelson remains 5.55 years older than that average, with President Oaks closest to it (as he remains 2.37 years younger than that average), which means that President Eyring remains 3.17 years below it. Unless there is something of which we are not aware in relation to the health of any of these Brethren, they will continue to set new records for the oldest-serving First Presidency in Church history for the foreseeable future.

Next, let’s turn our attention to the members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. President Ballard’s long-form age now sits at 90 years, 6 months, and 20 days, or 90.55 years. Elder Holland now has a long-form age of 78 years, 4 months, and 25 days, with a resulting 78.40 decimal years. Elder Uchtdorf (who is a mere 27 days older than his senior apostolic seatmate) is now 78 years, 5 months, and 22 days old, which works out to 78.47 years. Elder Bednar has now reached the full age of 66 years, 10 months, and 13 days, which works out to 66.87 decimal years. Elder Cook, the oldest but least senior of the 3 apostles born in 1940, has a long-form age of 78 years, 7 months, and 20 days old, with a resulting decimal age of 78.64 years. Elder Christofferson has now reached the age of 74 years, 3 months and 4 days, making his decimal age 74.26 years.

Elder Andersen is now 67 years, 8 months, and 19 days old, and his decimal age is 67.72 years. Elder Rasband is now 68 years, 2 months, and 22 days old, or 68.22 years. Elder Stevenson, at exactly 4.5 years younger than Elder Rasband (as both were born on the 6^th), has a long-form age of 63 years, 8 months, and 22 days, or 63.73 in decimal years. Elder Renlund is now exactly 66 years, 5 months, and 15 days, with a resulting decimal age of 66.45 years. Elder Gong is now 65 years, 4 months, and 5 days old, which works out to 65.35 in decimal years. As for Elder Soares, he is now 60 years, 6 months, and 26 days old, which is a resulting 60.57 decimal years.

           

Based on those numbers, the current members of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles now have a combined 859.23 years of life experience, which results in an average of 71.6 years per member. Elders Christofferson and Rasband remain respectively above and below that average. Elder Christofferson is 2.66 years older, while Elder Rasband is 3.38 years below it. With the information I presented earlier about the First Presidency, the 15 apostles as a group now have a combined 1,126.48 years of life experience, which is an average of 75.1 years. As noted previously, Elders Holland and Christofferson are older and younger than that average, by 3.3 and 6.88 years respectively.

           

We now move on to the nonagenarians. President Nelson remains the seventh oldest apostle in Church history, and is set to move up to the seventh spot on July 5 of this year. In the meantime, President Ballard remains the the 17^th oldest apostle. By the time of my next update (on June 16), he will have moved up two spots on the list to become the 15^th oldest apostle. He will do so when his lifespan matches that of President Spencer W. Kimball (which will occur on Wednesday May 15), and again, less than a month later, when on June 9, his lifespan will match that of President Marion G. Romney. Among the other apostles, President Oaks will join the nonagenarian list in 3 years, 3 months, and 15 days, while Elder Soares will do so in 29 years, 5 months, and 4 days, with the other apostles doing so at other various intervals, which will be detailed more fully as they approach.

I hope that many of you found this information to be interesting, informative, and accurate. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best, and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

Current Apostolic Statistics: Part One—Updated Data for President Oaks, President Nelson, and Longest-Serving Apostolic Groups

Hello again, everyone! While I continue to welcome comments on any previous posts (particularly any feedback you have on my ongoing coverage of the recently-announced changes in area leadership), as I am a week later in doing so than I’d planned to be, it is time once again to bring you all updated information on the latest apostolic statistics. This data will again be published in two posts. As always, it is my sincere hope that most of you will find this information interesting and enlightening. With that said, I am fully aware that some of you may not be interested in this update.

Consequently, I will not in any way be offended or bothered if any of you skip over this post and the next one. This first post, as has been the case for previous updates, will address President Dallin H. Oaks’ tenure as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, then shift to explore where Church President Russell M. Nelson currently stands in terms of his age and tenure length among his prophetic predecessors. That will be followed by some observations about the tenure lengths of our current First Presidency, Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and all currently-living ordained apostles as a group.

The more specific data about upcoming apostolic birthdays, the long-form and decimal ages of our 15 current apostles, and details about current and future apostolic nonagenarians will then follow in a second post, which will be published a few minutes after this one is. My last such update was posted on March 10. According to the six-week schedule I had established, this update was originally due to be posted last Sunday (April 21). But as I previously mentioned, at that time, I was still in recovery from the minor procedure I had had done 3 days prior to that.

As a result, I had to defer that update until now. And in looking towards the future, I determined that, since future updates would be affected by the delay of this one, it would be best to push back all future updates to be done every seven weeks rather than every six. As a consequence, my next update will be shared on this blog on Sunday June 16. As always, all data in this update is current as of today (Sunday April 28). There is a lot to get to, so let’s jump right in.

President Oaks has now served as President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles for a period of 1 year, 3 months, and 14 days. Roughly 2.5 weeks ago (on April 9, 2019), the length of President Oaks’ tenure matched that of Franklin D. Richards, and President Oaks thus moved up above him to become the 24^th longest-serving President of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles. As I noted previously, his next two milestones will be observed on July 7 and 9 of this year.

I will be providing more specifics on those with my fourth overall update this year (which, as a result of the delay in posting this update, I am now planning on posting on June 16 of this year). As mentioned previously, the length of President Oaks’ service will depend not only on his health and life length, but, of course, the health and life length of President Nelson will factor into that as well.  Insofar as I have been able to ascertain, none of our 15 current apostles is experiencing any kind of age- or health-related limitations. While the lifespan and length of apostolic tenure for all of these men is in the Lord’s hands, I am reasonably certain it will be several years before the next apostolic death.

And speaking of President Nelson, since he was ordained and set apart as Church President on the same day he set apart President Oaks as Quorum President, his tenure has spanned 1 year, 3 months, and 14 days as well. He is also now 94 years, 7 months, and 19 days old. He will observe his only 2019 tenure-length and age-length milestones two days apart on July 3 and 5 respectively with subsequent milestones more spread out in the years following that. And again, I will be detailing those more specifically during my next update on this information, which is now planned for Sunday June 16.

In the meantime, as also noted previously, I have been keeping lists of the longest-continuously serving First Presidencies, Quorums of the Twelve Apostles, and apostolic groups as a whole. Those lists include 13 of each of those groups that have served together for the longest continuous periods of time. The current First Presidency will only be joining the list of other First Presidencies on Saturday April 20, 2024, so I will be outlining their future milestones on that list closer to the time.  As for the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the current members will mark 3 years together on March 31, 2021, at which point they will join the list of the longest-serving Quorums of the Twelve Apostles in Church history. I will likewise be providing updates on those future milestones closer to that time.

Interestingly enough, less than two months prior to that, the 15 apostles will make the list of the longest-serving such group (the exact date is February 8, 2021). With that said, I want to conclude this portion of the update. That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are in accordance with the established guidelines.

Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post (which will be the second half of this update that published here within the next few minutes), I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

PDF of May 2019 Ensign Now Available/Report on How My Predictions for the Table of Contents Turned Out

Hello again, everyone! Late yesterday night, I found out that the PDF version of the May 2019 Ensign is now available to download online. Just one week ago, I had published on this blog a projection for what the table of contents might look like for this General Conference edition of the Ensign. Now that the official PDF version is available for online reading, I wanted to post again to share the results in terms of how the table of contents I put together compares with the actual magazine.

In an unusual move, it appears that the May 2019 Ensign only has 128 pages, whereas in recent years, at least the May edition has consisted of 144 pages. Also, not surprisingly, the picture inside the front cover is that group picture of the entire First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles which was taken while they were in Rome Italy for the dedication of the temple in that city. Other than these notes, all that remains is to share my estimates for that table of contents again, with the corrected page numbers in parentheses. That information follows below. In order to not disturb the flow of that information, I will end here and now as I always do: 

That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines. Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post (which should be the two-part apostolic statistical update that will be published here later today), I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

Possible Table of Contents for the May 2019 Ensign (Text in parentheses denotes a correction.)

Session	Page	Title	Speaker
	2	Conference Summary for the 188th Annual General Conference
	4	Highlights from the 188th Annual General Conference
SAM	6	How Can I Understand?	Elder Ulisses Soares
	10 (9)	Careful vs. Casual	Becky Craven
	13 (11)	Answers to Prayer	Elder Brook P. Hales
	16 (15)	Missionary Work: Sharing What Is in Your Heart	Elder Dieter F. Uchtdorf
	21 (19)	Just as He Did	Bishop W. Christopher Waddell
	24 (22)	A Home Where the Spirit of the Lord Dwells	President Henry B. Eyring
SAA	28 (26)	The Sustaining of Church Officers	President Dallin H. Oaks
	29 (27)	Church Auditing Department Report, 2017	Kevin R. Jergensen
	30 (28)	The True, Pure, and Simple Gospel of Jesus Christ	President M. Russell Ballard
	34 (31)	Seeking Knowledge by the Spirit	Elder Mathias Held
	37 (34)	The Eye of Faith	Elder Neil L. Andersen
	41 (38)	Feasting upon the Words of Christ	Elder Takashi Wada
	43 (41)	Hearing His Voice	Elder David P. Homer
	46 (44)	Behold the Lamb of God	Elder Jeffrey R. Holland
SPH	50 (47)	Your Priesthood Playbook	Elder Gary E. Stevenson
	54 (51)	The Quorum: A Place of Belonging	Elder Carl B. Cook
	57 (54)	Look unto Jesus Christ	Elder Kim B. Clark
	60 (58)	The Power of Sustaining Faith	President Henry B. Eyring
	64 (60)	Where Will This Lead?	President Dallin H. Oaks
	68 (67)	Ministering with the Power and Authority of God	President Russell M. Nelson
SUM	75 (70)	Abound with Blessings	Elder Dale G. Renlund
	79 (73)	Christ, The Light That Shines in Darkness	Sharon Eubank
	82 (76)	Great Love for Our Father’s Children	Elder Quentin L. Cook
	86 (81)	Preparing for the Lord’s Return	Elder D. Todd Christofferson
	90 (85)	The Atonement of Jesus Christ	Tad R. Callister
	93 (88)	Come, Follow Me	President Russell M. Nelson
SUA	97 (91)	Cleansed by Repentance	President Dallin H. Oaks
	101 (95)	Exercising Our Spiritual Muscles	Elder Juan Pablo Villar
	104 (97)	Good Shepherd, Lamb of God	Elder Gerrit W. Gong
	107 (101)	Prepared to Obtain Every Needful Thing	Elder David A. Bednar
	111 (105)	The Immediate Goodness of God	Elder Kyle S. McKay
	114 (107)	Build a Fortress of Spirituality and Protection	Elder Ronald A. Rasband
	118 (111)	Closing Remarks	President Russell M. Nelson
	72 (64)	General Authorities and General Officers of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
	119 (112)	Statistical Report
	120 (113)	Conference Story Index
	121 (114)	News of the Church, including new leader biographies, temple updates, scripture translations, etc.)
	137 (127)	Come Follow Me—For Elders’ Quorum and Relief Society
	144 (128)	Last Page of Conference Ensign

My Compiled List of Changes in Area Leadership Which Were Announced For 2019

Hello again, everyone! While I am still working on my analysis of the area leadership assignments which were announced yesterday by the First Presidency (which I hope to be able to publish here within the next two days or so), and while I am also hard at work on the apostoic statistical update which will be posted in two parts at soe point within the next 27 hours (but hopefully less than that if all goes well), for now, I wanted to post my compiled list of what has changed (which includes for the first time the names of those for whom there is not change in assignment this go-round).

Some of you may be wondering why I am posting the list now and am planning on posting my analysis of those changes later. I am doing so because I hope that will enable some thoughtful discussion here about those changes while I put togethe more thorough analysis of them. And I have also felt that the nature of some of these changes warranted some additional analysis due to their nature. When that analysis is posted, I hope it will be evident why I felt a need to do both separately.

In the meantime, the list of changes, which speaks for itself for now, follows below. In order to not disturb the flow thereof, I will end here and now as I always do: That does it for this post. Any and all comments are, as always, welcome and appreciated, on any post at any time, as long as such comments are made in accordance with the established guidelines.

Thank you for the privilege of your time. If you enjoyed what you read here and would like to stay informed of newly-added content, please feel free to subscribe. Until my next post, I wish each one of you all the best and pray that the Lord will bless you all in everything you do.

Changes in Area Leadership (effective August 1, 2019)

North American Areas merged: Idaho and North America Central (into the North America Central Area); North America Northwest and North America West (into the North America West Area); Utah North, Utah Salt Lake City, and Utah South (into the Utah Area)

Note: For the first time this go-round, a 3-man area presidency was called to have oversight of the Middle East/Africa North Area (where previously, there were just 2, a Senior and Junior Administrator).

Marcos A. Aidukaitis continues to serve as President of the Brazil Area.

Jose L. Alonso released as First Counselor and called as President of the Caribbean Area.

Jorge M. Alvarado called as Second Counselor in the Caribbean Area.

Wilford W. Andersen released as President of the Idaho/North America Central Area and as Junior Administrator of the Middle East/Africa North Area.

Ian S. Ardern released as First Counselor and called as President of the Pacific Area.

Steven R. Bangerter called as Second Counselor in the Philippines Area.

W. Mark Bassett released as First Counselor in the Brazil Area.

Randall K. Bennett continues to serve as President of the North America Northeast Area.

Hans T. Boom called as First Counselor in the Europe East Area Presidency.

Shayne M. Bowen released as First Counselor in the North America Southeast area.

Mark A. Bragg continues to serve as First Counselor in the South America South Area,

L. Todd Budge called as Second Counselor in the Asia North Area.

Matthew L. Carpenter called as Second Counselor in the North America Central Area.

Yoon Hwan Choi continues to serve as President of the Asia North Area.

Craig C. Christensen continues to serve as President of the Utah Area.

Valeri V. Cordon released as Second Counselor in the Central America Area.

Claudio R. M. Costa released as President of the North America Southeast Area.

Joaquin E. Costa called as Second Counselor in the Brazil Area.

LeGrand R. Curtis Jr. released as First Counselor in the Utah Area.

Massimo De Feo released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Europe Area.

Benjamin De Hoyos continues to serve as President of the South America South Area.

Edward Dube continues to serve as First Counselor in the Africa West Area (as announced in mid-October 2018).

David F. Evans continues to serve as President of the Asia Area.

Enrique R. Falabella continues to serve as President of the South America Northwest Area. Randy D. Funk released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Utah Area.

Eduardo Gavarret released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Caribbean Area.

Christoffel Golden Jr. released as First Counselor and called as President of the Europe East Area.

Walter F. Gonzalez released as President of the Caribbean Area and called as Second Counselor in the Utah Area.

O. Vincent Haleck released as President of the Pacific Area.

Kevin S. Hamilton released as First Counselor in the North America Northeast Area.

Allen D. Haynie released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the North America Northeast Area.

Mathias Held continues to serve as Second Counselor in the South America Northwest Area.

David P. Homer continues to serve as Second Counselor in the Asia Area.

Paul V. Johnson released as President of the Europe Area.

Larry S. Kacher called as First Counselor in the Middle East/Africa North Area.

Jörg Klebingat continues to serve as Second Counselor in the North America West Area (formerly the North America Northwest/West Area).

Joni L. Koch continues to serve as Second Counselor in the Africa Southeast Area.

Erich W. Kopischke called as Second Counselor in the Europe Area.

Hugo E. Martinez continues to serve as Second Counselor in the Africa West Area (as announced in mid-October 2018).

James B. Martino released as President of the Europe East Area and called as President of the North America Southeast Area.

Kyle S. McKay called as Second Counselor in the North America Southwest Area.

Peter F. Meurs continues to serve as First Counselor in the Asia Area.

Hugo Montoya released as First Counselor in the South America Northwest Area and called as Second Counselor in the North America Southeast Area.

Marcus B. Nash continues to serve as President of the Africa West Area.

K. Brett Nattress released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Pacific Area.

S. Gifford Nielsen released as the First Counselor in the Idaho/North America Central Area and called as President of the North America Central Area.

Adrian Ochoa released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the North America Southwest Area.

S. Mark Palmer continues to serve as President of the Africa Southeast Area.

Adilson de Paula Parrella released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Brazil Area.

Kevin W. Pearson continues to serve as President of the North America West Area (formerly the North America Northwest/West Area).

Anthony D. Perkins released as Senior Administrator and called as President of the Middle East/Africa North Area.

Paul B. Pieper released as First Counselor and called as President of the North America Southwest Area.

John C. Pingree Jr. continues to serve as Second Counselor in the Mexico Area.

Rafael E. Pino continues to serve as First Counselor in the Mexico Area.

Lynn G. Robbins released as President of the North America Southwest Area.

Evan A. Schmutz continues to serve as President of the Philippines Area.

Gary B. Sabin released as First Counselor and called as President of the Europe Area.

Joseph W. Sitati continues to serve as First Counselor in the Africa Southeast Area.

Vern P. Stanfill released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the North America Southeast Area.

Brian K. Taylor released as Second Counselor in the Idaho/North America Central Area and called as First Counselor in the Central America Area.

Michael John U. Teh released as First Counselor in the Philippines Area.

Juan A. Uceda continues to serve as President of the Central America Area.

Arnulfo Valenzuela continues to serve as President of the Mexico Area.

Juan Pablo Villar continues to serve as Second Counselor in the South America South Area.

Takashi Wada released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Asia North Area.

Taniela B. Wakolo released as Second Counselor and called as First Counselor in the Philippines Area.

Alan R. Walker called as Second Counselor in the Central America Area.

Scott D Whiting continues to serve as First Counselor in the North America West Area (formerly the North America Northwest/West Area).

Chi Hong (Sam) Wong called as First Counselor in the North America Central Area.

Kazuhiko Yamashita released as First Counselor in the Asia North Area and called as Second Counselor in the Pacific Area.

Jorge F. Zeballos released as First Counselor in the Central America Area and called as First Counselor in the South America Northwest Area.

Note: Two area seventies will serve in area presidencies. Alexey V. Samaykin continues to serve as Second Counselor in the Europe East Area, and Jeffrey H. Singer will serve as Second Counselor in the Middle East/Africa North Area