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!!!

Thursday, January 20, 2011

Miracles in Antwerp

(As we receive permission from the newly baptized members, baptisms will be posted on the blog-sorry for the delay)

Richard Amoah, Antwerpen, Dec 12, 2010

Richard Amoah is truly an inspiration and it was truly an honor to get to know this wonderful person. Richard was found about 3 months ago as Elder Relitz and Elder Cox were walking to catch the tram in Antwerpen. They approached him and started to talk about how well Ghana had played in the recent world cup. Richard said that he could see a particular light being exerted from them. Richard had a very strong religious background and was really for looking more in his life, and how we could really find more happiness. Through a wonderful process of learning to overcome opposition and taking steps of faith Richard was baptized on December 12. Richard has incredible faith and really inspires the people around him. He has a great understanding of the restored gospel and says that he finds great strength in the Book of Mormon. He reads 15 minutes every night before he goes to bed. (Written by Elder Brockbank)

Charles, Antwerpen, Dec 12, 2010

We met Charles on November 8, 2010 when we went to visit Christina Aidoo, a member in the Antwerpen ward. After talking for a little bit, we opened the scriptures to share a thought with them and he said,
"Before you start, I feel like I should tell you something. Last night I had a really weird dream and I woke up with a start at 4:00 this morning. I had the strongest feeling that I should read the First
Epistle of James, and I’ve been fasting all day for direction from God." Uh... hello! We began teaching him that about Joseph Smith and the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and he loved it! Charles
was so thirsty for knowledge and soaked up everything that we taught him. Every lesson, he would tell us about what he had read in the Book of Mormon and how it related to his own life. He said that he "found
himself in the stories" while he read. He loves the Book of Mormon and would even take it to work with him in order to read during his 30 minute lunch break. Charles would commit himself during every lesson
to live the principle being taught before we would have theopportunity to extend the commitment. He was the epitome of the "golden investigator“! He was baptized on Sunday, December 12 by
Joseph Tunde, and as he came out of the water, he raised a fists inthe air and jubilated, "I did it!". He's the man! (Zuster De Groot and Zuster Fritz)

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