EXCITING MISSION ORGANIZATION

MISSION REALIGNMENT: At mission transfers Wednesday, we announced several organizational realignments.

• We took the largest zone - the 33-missionary Phoenix Zone, serving the Phoenix Arizona Stake - and created two zones of 17 and 16 missionaries respective, the Phoenix and Phoenix South zones, both serving the same stake.
• We took two of our next largest zones - the Peoria/West Maricopa and Peoria North/Surprise zones - and created a third zone. The new zones are: the West Maricopa Zone, serving the stake of the same name; the Surprise/Surprise North Zone, serving the two same-named stakes; and the Peoria/Peoria North Zone, serving the two Peoria stakes.
• We also took some of our largest districts - some with 10 and 12 missionaries each - and divided them.

The hope is to get more zone and district leaders working directly with a smaller set of their missionaries more often and giving the leaders themselves more time to work in their own proselyting areas.