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, May 25, 2010

Missionaries Bring the Sunshine

This is one of our favorite days of the transfer! We received 7 excited missionaries in Bruxelles today!
Wow! We felt their energy and their relief to finally be starting their missions!


Welcome to the best mission in the world!
It was a beautiful, warm spring day in Brussels today! We have an amazing view of the city from the
balcony of the mission office. Only one of our missionaries has been to Europe, so they just couldn't
contain their instant love for this beautiful city.
After a very needed nap, we took our missionaries to Tevuren Park, where our mission
was dedicated in 1997 by Jeffrey R. Holland. We never tire of this experience!
The way the light filtered through the trees
reminded me so much of the Sacred Grove. It is always a joy to share this special
and spiritual place with our missionaries.
Our missionaries had their first experience at the Grand Place, talking and finding people interested
in the church. We paired off, two by two. Sister Harrington and I were companions.
We were able to share a special time with each other, as we were able to get a referral from
a young man from Hong Kong, and three medical students from Spain! Sister Harrington
came very well prepared for missionary work. She taught me how to be bold,
and bore a powerful testimony to these golden contacts.


Through out the evening, there was a growing anticipation of getting back to the mission home,
so our missionaries could finally find out where they will be serving! They were all anxious to open
their envelopes with the names of their new companion and their first city.

Sister Harrington will be in Groningen with Sister Sharp.

Elder Brownell will be with Elder Keith in Rotterdam.
Sister Cranford will be with Sister Fowler in The Hague.
Elder Critttenden will be with Elder Thompson in Almere.
Sister De Groot will be in Gouda with Sister Robbins.
Elder Fullmer will be with Elder Matthews in Den Bosch.
Elder Alexander will be with Elder Robinson in The Hague.
Can you just feel their excitement?
After breakfast, we loaded all luggage and said our good-byes as
Elder Tibbetts and Elder Pancratz delivered them to the train station. Now the
true joy begins!

Even the rain couldn't dampen the sprits of our missionaries!
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2 comments:

  1. Sheryl28 May 2010 at 06:04

    THANK YOU for keeping such a wonderful blog. What a joy it is to see pictures of this new group of missionaries (especially Zuster De Groot!)

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  2. Joan15 June 2010 at 10:39

    I just found your blog. Thanks for posting pictures. I love all their smiles and enthusiasm.

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