The Brubaker Family

The Brubaker Family

President Brubaker and I are excited to be here as the Mission President and companion of the Belgium Brussels Netherlands Mission! We love your sons and daughters, and feel to thank you for the wonderful missionaries you have raised! This is a very unique mission. Our mission includes two countries, and five languages, not including many dialects spoken in the Netherlands. The missionaries are teaching many people from all around the globe. With the help of the Spirit, the missionaries are finding those who have been prepared to receive the Gospel. This is truly the best mission in the world, and we are honored to be a part of it. We will try and take good care of your sons and daughters. We love them so much already!

We have 5 children and 11 wonderful grand children. We have so much fun together! We are grateful for the support they have given us as we prepared to leave for three years. Our home is in Salt Lake City, Utah. We have raised our family in the Millcreek Holladay area. We enjoy many activities together. We are happiest when we are hiking in Southern Utah, cross-country skiing into our rustic cabin in the Uintahs, enjoying a good game of Train or Settlers of Catan, or just being together and sharing a meal with each other. We love our family so much!!!

Sunday, August 30, 2009

Blessings Come When You Least Expect Them


After interviews in Liège, President Brubaker and I were honored to stay and speak at a Ward Fireside. The theme for the fireside was on The Book of Mormon. We invited the members of the ward to read the Book of Mormon in 59 days, the same amount of time it took Joseph Smith to translate the book. I shared with them the challenge I had been given by Sister Teixera at our Mission President's training a few weeks before, and offered them the same challenge. I have a long ways to go with my French, but I think the members were happy that I gave my talk in French. We brought enough Book of Mormons for each person to have a new copy, and mark those verses that are the most impressive to them as they read the Book of Mormon.

Elder Shaunig needed a ride home to Mons. He came with a member to provide a beautiful musical number at the fireside. He wasn't able to get a ride back to Mons. He was so appreciative!. We enjoyed his company for an hour. He had lots of questions for us. After we got him safely home, we got a call from Nikki Barkume, who was President Brubaker's Dutch teacher at the MTC! They were in Brussels starting a week-long trip to their mission. She and one of her former missionary companions had missed their connection to Den Haag, in Holland, due to a late train from Frankfurt. So they needed a place to spend the night. We went to pick up these tired travelers on our way home. They spent the night at the mission home, and then we took them to church to Brussels the next morning. It all worked out. It is a good thing we took Elder Shaunig home! We arrived at the train station just in time to pick them up and give them a good bed to sleep in.

It was so good to see Sister Barkume again! They were excited to go to church in Brussels the next morning. Sister Orton and Sister Barkume are both from Cedar City, Utah. They are best of friends! It was a wonderful reunion for them! Blessings come when you least expect them!



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