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, March 08, 2012

Mid-Winter Meetings Are So Inspiring!

This photo does not look like Holland or Belgium! We drove to Frankfurt on Wednesday for the mid-winter meetings for all mission presidents and their wives in the Europe area. Frankfurt is only four hours away from our home in Leidschendam!

We had a few hours before the seminar began. We walked through the streets of Frankfurt.
One of my favorite things.....Spring flowers!
This almost looks like "Brubaker" Straat!

President Brubaker and President Clegg found some authentic pretzels for breakfast!We were able to quickly tour the large cathedral.
We were so privileged to be taught for two days from our area presidency. We decided we needed an extra year to teach everything we learned to our missionaries.
We were so happy to meet the mission presidents and wives that we started with almost 3 years ago! We have become so close and it is like our MTC group. We get so excited when we are able to be reunited one last time and share our experiences and ideas with one another.
It was so good to see our friends from Paris. Elder and Soeur Caussé were so kind and helpful to us when we were serving in the France Paris mission.
On the last day we all went to the Frankfurt temple together.
Michael Ertelt is one of our former French missionaries who is from Frankfurt. He met us at the temple after. We were so happy to see him, and have a short visit with him.
We were able to meet some of his family, who live close to the temple! We were so happy to be in their home and feel the love they have for one another.
President and Sister Hinckley have become our dear friends. We went together the last night after the temple, and enjoyed some delicious German rosti!
The German language is very similar to Dutch!
The time flew by, and before we knew it we were saying good-bye! Eternal friendships are formed!
Most everyone had planes to catch. President and Sister Clegg are serving in Malaga, Spain. We have so much in common, and loved sharing mission stories.

We are excited to go back to the Netherlands and Belgium, share what we feel is most important for our mission, and SPRINT to the end! We are enthusiastic we can, with the Lord's help, accomplish much good!

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