Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission: The Dutch Missionaries Come Together For Leadership Council

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, March 11, 2010

The Dutch Missionaries Come Together For Leadership Council

President Brubaker opened the Leadership Council Meeting with a great enthusiasm for what has happened in the last two weeks. He showed the graph of key indicators and what has happened since Zone Conference. There was a HUGE difference in Baptismal Dates and small decline of other’s. Baptismal commitments works!

Bigger Lesson- We now have knowledge rather than Faith that these things work.

· The missionaries learned different approaches on how to start a lesson. They learned the importance of an overview of where you are going with the lessons. So the investigators know what our purpose is instead of just guess what we are doing.

· We need love for each other and faith to reach the goals we have Together.