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!!!

Friday, April 30, 2010

Koninginnedag or Queen's Birthday


Koninginnedag or Queen's Day is a national holiday in the Netherlands on 30 April. Queen's Day celebrates the birthday of the Queen of the Netherlands and is supposed to be a day of national unity and "togetherness".

Queen's Day is known for its "freemarket" all over the country, where everybody is allowed to sell things in the streets.

We met our missionaries in Dordrecht for interviews. It was a little crazy in the city, but we found all missionaries waiting for us! We spent the morning interviewing and the missionaries had District Meeting while the interviews were going on. The Langeveld's provided a nice lunch for us. Then we all walked to the Centrum to participate in this cultural event.

People dress up in orange, called orange craze, as reference to the House of Orange. The missionaries enjoy wearing their orange ties on this National holiday! It can be a hard day for proselyting, so we encourage our missionaries to find ways to offer service to the members and less active on this day.
We found the street market, and Anna was excited about her
2 euro Delft hand painted jar.

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