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!!!

Saturday, January 21, 2012

Willem De Bruijn Joins the Church in Leiden


Elder Benson, Willem De Bruijn and Elder Jones

Willem was one of those investigators that just happened to fall into our laps. We were in church one day and a member grabbed my two companions Elder McCarlie and Elder Alexander and pulled them out into the hall. A couple of minutes later they came walking in with Willem. Turns out that he had walked into the church and was wanting to learn more. We set up an appointment and began teaching him. Over time, we learned that he had a friend that used to live here in The Netherlands but has since moved to Nigeria. She is a member of the church and she invited him to seek out the church and learn more. The teaching process was slow at times and we even got to the point where we thought we were going to lose Willem. We decided that we needed to take more time to teach him; and as soon as we did that, we could notice a change coming to him. Over the next couple of months we were able to see Willem change from someone that didn’t really have a goal in life to someone knowing what his purpose was and eagerly wanting to learn more. It took some time but Willem finally reached the point that he was ready to be baptized. He was baptized on the 21st of January and has been happy ever since. I will forever consider it a blessing to be able to interact with this great son of God.

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