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!!!

Friday, July 01, 2011

Soulé is Converted in Dordrecht

Soulé, Dordrecht, July 1, 2011

On the side of a busy street leading to Dordrecht centre, in between a handbag shop and a glasses shop, we saw a man and woman in conversation. Not wanting to be rude and interrupt, we decided to continue on instead of approaching them. We made it about 5 feet when we knew we needed to approach them. We mustered our combined courage, retraced through the one way traffic and told them we had a very important book we needed to share with them. The woman only spoke French and Lingala, and, not very interested in a book, walked off. Soule, however, stayed and told us he wanted a book. With the combined difficulties of language and the business of the street, we were unsure how much he took from this first encounter. After we had taught Soule for a couple of weeks, he told us “Jullie lopen samen met God.” – we walk together with God, and that the initial recognition of the Spirit was how he knew to continually meet with us.

We sometimes had a difficult time trying to communicate with him, what with the four different languages floating around in the room. But finally, we came to a point where we knew that Soulé had a testimony. He was very excited to be baptized, and he told us, “I’m not getting baptized for you or for you. I want to be baptized because God wants me to be.” (Written by Sister Reber)


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