Big Changes in Germany Berlin Mission

We have learned within the last few days, that on July 1, the Germany Berlin Mission area will be expanded to take in the area of the Germany Hamburg Mission, which will be dissolved as a separate unit. Berlin will remain the mission headquarters and I will remain the mission president of the newly combined mission. It will double the number of missionaries in our mission and more than double the territory we will cover. It came as a big surprise, but comes right from the top - approved by the First Presidency. This change and other mission changes will be publicly announced in the 13 Feb. Church News. We were asked to announce it to all our missionaries first, which we completed this week, and can now share the information with you and others as appropriate. Wish us luck and pray for us. We are going to need it. Love, Uncle Jay