Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission: Zone Conference-Back to the Basics

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!!!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Zone Conference-Back to the Basics

We were excited to be with our missionaries for the first Zone Conference of 2010! President Brubaker prepared the missionaries by asking them to read and study Chapter 10 in Preach My Gospel. They came prepared to learn how to become better teachers. The Assistants had previously arranged to have new members come and practice with the missionaries. They were divided into small groups and were able to identify where they needed the most improvement, and then worked on this. I think the missionaries were excited to learn and improved their teaching skills. President Brubaker taught the missionaries in the afternoon about making and attaining goals. Missionaries learned secrets of optimism and success in missionary work.