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!!!

Sunday, September 18, 2011

The Province of Drenthe

We decided to stay up in this neck of the woods, so we could go to church in Emmen.
Emmen is located in the province of Drenthe.
Emmen arose from several small farming and peat-harvesting communities which have dotted the province of Drenthe since the Middle Ages.

We enjoyed going to church in Emmen. This ward is blessed with lots of
young families! Bishop van Damme told me that there are over 20 children in the Primary, and they must be all under 7!
On the way home, we happened upon this quaint vilage called Orvelte.
Orvelte has been rebuilt as it was in 1830, so that much of the village is now a lived-in open-air museum.
Here you can see barns of the Saxon type.
We loved the barns and the unique designs of thatch!
Gourds and pumpkins for sale.
The Netherlands Grow flowers best!
I love these decorative wood designs on the houses only found in this province of Drenthe. Anyone can find out the history behind these please let me know!

We fell in love with another part of this beautiful country!

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