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, September 09, 2010

Happy Day-Our Visa Waiters Arrive


Today was the best day! We received word a few days ago that our visa waiters no longer had to wait any longer in the Jacksonville Mississippi Mission. I'm sure they felt a great loss as these are three of the finest missionaries and will be a great blessing to our mission. We awaited anxiously at the airport for them to arrive! Here is our first glimpse of them.

Elder Schwartz, Elder McCarlie, and Elder Mickelson-WELCOME
First stop-mission office for photos of our safely arrived missionaries
Elder Owens, our office secretary, sends an email to the missionaries' parents to let them know
their son arrived safely, and are in good hands!
Elder Conder, and Elder Owens talk to the missionaries about legality and money matters.


We enjoyed a lunch together at the mission office. As jet lag starts to set in, we give our missionaries
a few hours to rest and prepare for their first contacting opportunity at the Grand Place.
We all are anticipating the moment right before bed, when each missionary opens his envelope, and
finds out where he will be serving and who his trainer will be.
President Brubaker assigns only the best of the best to be trainers.

Elder McCarlie will be serving in Amsterdam and will be trained by Elder Wood
Elder Mickelson will serve in Amsterdam and will be trained by Elder DeMeester.
Elder Scheartz will be serving in Den Bosch and will be trained by Elder Weatherston
"There is no other labor in all the world that brings to a human heart,
judging from my own personal experience, more joy, peace and serenity
than proclaiming the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ."
Heber J. Grant - Teachings of the Presidents of the Church: Heber J. Grant

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  1. Jackie14 September 2010 at 22:20

    Thank you for the wonderful pictures! I'm Elder Schwartz's sister-in-law. I love that you have this blog, I think it is such a wonderful thing for the Elders' and Sisters' families!

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