As many have probably already heard, the Church has removed all of its North American missionaries from Venezuela and reassigned them to other Spanish-speaking missions (see SL Tribune article). Political tensions being what the are between the U.S. and Venezuela right now, it seems to be a reasonable action. I don’t know much about the Church in Venezuela, but it seems to be quite strong there (a temple and 144 congregations) and perfectly capable of continuing on without too much of a blip as a result of the sudden drop in missionaries. I’m sure it will cause some short term difficulties in the missions, though, as people are shuffled. Hopefully, long term difficulties will be avoided.
I’m quite impressed that the approximately 400 missionaries were removed in 4 hours.
Thoughts?