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!!!

Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Centers for Young Adults are a Huge Success

The Outreach Center for Young Single Adults is the result of a powerful revelation that Elder L. Tom Perry had the night after President Gordon B. Hinckley called him to be over the Central Europe Area. Elder Perry had a dream from which he awoke and said that he had received one of the most powerful revelations of his life. It was made known to him that the success of missionary work in Central Europe and the future strength of The Church here would come from the Young Single Adult aged members." ( Quoted from Outreach Presentation, MTC, Provo, Utah)

Because of this revelation Outreach Centers for YSA are being established throughout Europe. The Center is a place that the young single adults can come to as a refuge from the world. At the center they can meet and strengthen one another, bring friends, both members and non-members to play games, listen to good music, read, work on a computer, talk and eat! The Center is also the place that the full time missionaries will teach investigators that are of that same age in the presence of the members who are their peers who can become their friends from the beginning of the conversion process.

These centers have already helped to make Elder Perry's vision a reality in such places such as Germany, Norway, and Sweden, and we can witness first hand his vision taking place in Holland, Belgium, and France.
After interviews, President Brubaker and I had the opportunity to go with Elder Dalpias and Elder LeFevre to teach two young adults in the Hague. Hendricka and Andrian have been attending "Yo Fo"with Nathan and Paris, who are members. The lesson was on the Priesthood, and the missionaries taught an inspirational lesson. President Brubaker shared how the Priesthood had blessed his life. I was able to share how having the Priesthood in our home had personally blessed the lives of our children. We felt so gratified to be able to have this experience. Andrian and Hendricka had many questions and we enjoyed their vitality for life and their desire to learn more about the Gospel.

We have six Centers for Young Adults in our mission, and the number is growing!

1 comment:

  1. Thank you for sharing this story about my son and for posting the picture!!! His camera broke several months ago, so I rely on other cameras to "see" him!!!

    I am equally thrilled to learn more about the JOVO centers!

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