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, March 16, 2012

A Beautiful Day to Be in Antwerp

It was a beautiful day on Friday in Antwerp, Belgium. The missionaries were all smiles and ready to be taught by their president.
The Antwerp Zone had everything set up, ready to go when we arrived!
The missionaries learned about the most important document in the church, according to Elder Perry; The Progress Record! The missionaries smiled when President Brubaker told them that this is the only "love letter" they are allowed to write. They should write it with an abundance of love, and share it with those in the ward council.

"Love softens peoples hearts. It prepares them to listen to the Gospel. Love is a beautiful burden to carry." President Brubaker

In PMG it states that the Progress Record will build the ward council's confidence in the missionaries if it is done weekly and is accurate and is neatly written. Missionaries were encouraged to keep them right in their planners, so they can always know how their investigators are doing and keep them updated.
Progress Record WE:
Fold 'em
Share 'em
Make them with love
Start conversations with
Teach bishops about 'em

Missionaries shared some of the miracles they are seeing from "Consecrated Days."

"We taught 6 people at a bus stop! it was amazing! When we talk to everyone, miracles happen!" Elder Andrews

We found another area book in the apartment! It was full of former investigators with baptismal dates! We were so excited to look them up!" Elder Van Overbeek

Headquarter Referral-
We had time to look them up has been a blessing of 2-2-5 - Elder Mohrmon

Have the mindset that you cannot fail. Elder Taylor

The Zone Leaders did a fantastic job on the lunch!
Missionaries love receiving letters!

"We can have that faith that we can baptize! Why can’t we baptize 100 like other missions? It is faith. Our baptismal dates went up to 10. We found some amazing kingdom builders. We had faith and it happened. It is our own mindset. It is faith to have faith." Elder Brownell

Elder Shoemaker and Elder Pope are serving in Leuven.Belgium. Elder Pope treated us with a beautiful and delicious peach cobbler!

Elder Shoemaker-"Planning the night before really helps as we put names on every hour. The Lord helps us, and we have found that we find lots of people on the way to the name."

President Brubaker and Elder Van Overbeek celebrate February birthdays together!

"Hope is that ray of sunshine on a very gray Dutch day."—Elder Van Overbeek

Elder Brown and Elder Stoddard are serving in Kortrijk, Belgium, which is right on the Belgium French border. They are both working closely with the ward clerk and the branch president to locate all the names on the ward list and put them on maps so they can help find those that are less active, young adults, members, progressing investigators, etc. They love "consecrated days".

A beautiful musical number by Elder Shoemaker, Elder Van Overbeek, Elder Taylor, and Elder Pope brought the spirit into our meeting for the afternoon.
What are all the frowns for? Elder Brownell, Elder Crittendon and Zuster Kremer can't imagine life after mission!
We love our missionaries in the Antwerp, Belgium Zone!
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  1. kerishoe25 March 2012 at 18:04

    What a great post Sister Brubaker! I very much looking forward to your updates and to see pictures of our stripling warriors hard at work!

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