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, November 20, 2009

A Thanksgiving Feast Shared With our Senior Couples

A week before Thanksgiving we had a wonderful Thanksgiving dinner together with our senior couples in our mission. We have nine amazing senior couples. I have decided that senior missionaries are a very unique and precious group of people. They are willing to be a little daring and adventurous to give up the comforts of home, and leave their families behind and come to serve wherever they are called. They have super strong testimonies. They are just marvelous people through and through! I love each of our couples so much. We had so much food; I think we could’ve fed another 20 people. I just felt so incredibly blessed as Scott and I sat at the head of the table and looked over the amazing blessings of each couple and the gift they are to this mission.
I had lots of experienced kitchen help!
With all leaves in the table, we all fit very comfortably at the dining room table.
I had lots of help with the meal! Each sister volunteered to bring something! We just needed 20 fainting couches after the meal to take a long nap!
Left to right: Soeur Arhets, Soeur Phair, Zuster Hofman, Zuster Pancratz, Zuster Langeveld, Zuster Dabel, Zuster Spek, Zuster Salden, Soeur Brown, and Soeur Brubaker
Left to right: Elder Salden (kneeling), President Brubaker, Elder Hofman, Elder Langeveld, Elder Pancratz, Elder Dabel, Elder Spek, Elder Phair, Elder Arhets, and Elder Brown.

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