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, March 27, 2012

Week of Transfers!


We started our week of transfers with Elder Andrews and Elder Mickelsen coming to the mission home for dinner after all fasting together. We receive 11 new missionaries this week! Our mission is growing younger with each new transfer! There will be many decisions to be made with this transfer. Our missionaries are having to grow up fast! We have 11 new trainers anxious and willing to help the new missionaries learn and implement our culture and have a great start to their mission!
We have lots of help at the office with the young teaching the young at heart! Elder Jones, our legality secretary is so kind and helpful! The office elders learn lessons of life from Elder Pankratz! We love Elder and Sister Pankratz! They have so many responsibilities! Just to name a few........mission cars, opening and closing apartments, referrals, ordering and providing supplies for our missionaries, baptism stories for the mission blog, helping with senior couples, and much much more!
Elder Mickelsen and Elder Andrews are all smiles on Monday morning! The transfer went smoothly, and now they are onto sending a Harvest report to all of the zone leaders to let them know how the week went! It was a great week! Our new investigator key indicator almost doubled!
We will miss you Elder Mickelsen! Good luck in The Hague!
We are sad to say good-bye to two of our permanent fixtures at the office! Elder Benson will go back out in the field! He has kept in perfect order all of the $%$%$% of the mission! The car will stay at the office, so he is getting his bike all fine tuned for his new assignment to Amersfoort.

We will miss the beautiful music.......you have touched our hearts!
Sister Pankratz is so kind to make us lunch every Monday! We enjoy sharing miracles, finding out how the mission did, and this week preparing for transfers.
Now that Elder Klippel has been expertly trained by Elder Benson, the baton is now passed onto him to know all the ins and outs of the mission!
Elder Jones will receive his trainee soon! Elder Calkins will be the new legality secretary, and will come on Wednesday. Elder Jones has been an amazing secretary! There is no task too big, no hurdle he cannot conquer! He is always asking sincerely, "Sister Brubaker, is there anything I can do to help you?"
Ready......Set.......Go! With everyone's help we are ready for tomorrow!

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