Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission: Leadership Council With Zone and District Leaders

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!!!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Leadership Council With Zone and District Leaders

January … After the transfers we held a leadership meeting at the Mission Home. Each district leader had met with his district, and each zone leader had met with his zone. We came fasting in order to know what the Lord expects of us this year. President Brubaker let the the missionaries discussed among themselves their thoughts about a goal of baptisms. In recent history we have not reached 300 and some suggested that number. Others wanted to take a total of the districts’ individual goals or 351. They knelt in prayer and within a couple of minutes they decided to shoot for a goal of 325 baptisms. This transfer we are studying chapter 9 and in February our zone conference will be a planning skills workshop and a formulation of a plan to reach those goals. Improved prayers, improved planning and TALKING TO EVERYONE seem to be the responses as to how we can reach our goals.