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, April 14, 2012

Rosemary Embraces the Gospel in Leeuwarden


Rose Mary Amu, 14 April, 2012
Leeuwarden



Elder Mathis, Rose Mary, Joy and Elder Van Rij

We met Rose Mary in Leeuwarden outside the church building on March 14th.  We are usually not in Leeuwarden on Wednesday's, but we had an appointment scheduled there that day.  We were at the church because that's where the Van Komen's were going to pick us up to take us to our appointment.  Well, as we were waiting in the church, we looked outside and saw two ladies pointing to the church with a Liahona with President Monson's picture on it in their hands.  So we ran outside and started talking to them.  Rose Mary had a visitor, Joy, (her boyfriend's mother), who came to stay with Rose Mary during the last month before the baby came.  While there, Joy (member of the church from Italy) wanted to introduce Rose Mary to the Church.  So we got their information and planned on seeing them at church on Sunday.

We began teaching Rose Mary last month and planned a baptismal date for April 28th, about 10 days after her baby was due.  We figured that anything before then would be too early and she wouldn't be prepared.  So we began teaching her two times a week.  The lessons were great, and Rose Mary kept all her commitments and began to recognize the Spirit testifying of the truth of our message.  It was great to have Joy there who could encourage her and answer her questions after we would leave.

Well then on Tuesday, April 10th, Elder Van De Graaf came on splits and we went to teach Rose Mary.  On our way to the lesson I told him, ''We need to move her baptismal date back, she probably will need more time after her baby comes.''  He said, ''Let's just move it forward to before the baby comes.''  So I said, ''That means it would have to be in four days!''  Well, we made a plan of action and we thought we would ask Rose Mary in our lesson if she would like to be baptized on Saturday the 14th.  She was really happy and said she would want that.  So we taught her every day that week, some days even twice.  Well, she was prepared before we even met her.  She loved the commandments and the gospel.  She was willing and ready to do anything Jesus Christ and God asked of her. 

So after a crazy week of being taught every single day, she was baptized on April 14th.  She felt the Spirit strongly during the baptismal service and afterwards told us how she felt ''so clean.''

Her baby is due to come this Wednesday (a boy named Nino), and she is grateful to have the gift of the Holy Ghost to help her go through this process.  Rose Mary is a great disciple of Jesus Christ and ready to walk in Christ's footsteps.

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