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!!!

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

New Missionaries Are Here!

This is the day we have all been waiting for! Nine new missionaries arrived in the Amsterdam Schiphol Airport bright and early this morning! We were SO happy they were on time!
They were greeted by the assistants, President Brubaker and I, and then we wheeled their luggage to the awaiting senior couple, Elder and Zister Pankratz who loaded their luggage in the mission van.
They had their first European experience riding a train to the mission office in Leiden!
First experience eating pannekoeken in Leiden!
Elder Mickelsen, Elder Crittendon, and Elder Romer enjoy!
Zuster Hinchcliff, Zuster Townsend, and Zuster Schaub decide to share !
Zuster Jones and Zuster Davies loved the quaint Dutch restaurant!
Elder Christmensen, Elder Taylor, and Elder Douglas think this beats the food at the MTC!
The new missionaries divided up with the assistants and the office elders, and had their first contacting experience!
They were able to have some meaningful Gospel conversations with some young people.

The seasoned missionaries showed them it is not as scary as you think! When we met them back at the mission office they were excited to report to us how it went!

(more to come.......missionaries receive their first assignments at the mission home)

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