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!!!
We are always excited to go to Lille, France for interviews. We get so excited as we are able to spend some time in France with our missionaries. The missionaries are so fortunate to have the Arhets in their zone. They are serving in Mouscron, Belgium and are in charge of the Center for Young Adults. Elder Arhets was born in France, and Sister Arhets was born in China. They bring diversified experiences to the mission, and our missionaries really look up to them for counsel and advice. Sister Arhets is always preparing meals for the Jeunes Adultes and the missionaries!
Elder Bertrand surprised us all with a full Mexican lunch in Arras, France! It was such a treat and the missionaries were so happy! It feels so good for us to eat together. I think it brings great unity among us as we sit and chat together. I know the missionaries love having a meal provided for them. Elder Carpenter and Elder Cabrera were very inspiring today as they taught the missionaries to discover the meaning of really loving those we teach and those we live with-our companions. They had prepared a sheet of paper with each of the names of the missionaries. They sat in a big circle and passed the papers around the circle and invited each missionary to write something nice about that missionary. After everyone had written something on the paper it was full of compliments! I think missionaries went away feeling a little better about themselves! I know I did! We really have great missionaries.
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