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, November 02, 2010

Cultural P-Day

What a beautiful sight to wake up to!
We had a Cultural P-Day with the sisters.
Our first stop was Vilvoorde, Belgium. There are no remains left of the castle, but only a monument in it's place.

Tyndale was the first to translate considerable parts of the Bible into English, for a public, lay readership. While a number of partial and complete translations had been made from the seventh century onward, particularly during the 14th century, Tyndale's was the first English translation to draw directly from Hebrewand Greek texts, and the first to take advantage of the new medium of print, which allowed for its wide distribution. In 1535, Tyndale was arrested by church authorities and jailed in the castle of Vilvoorde outside Brussels for over a year. He was tried for heresy, strangled and burnt at the stake. The Tyndale Bible, as it was known, continued to play a key role in spreading Reformation ideas across Europe.
Our next stop was Mechelen, Belgium.

Oh, to be young again!
The cathedral was built in honor of Saint Rombout (Rumbold), a seventh century Irish missionary. This beautiful painting depicting the Last Supper was inside the cathedral.
The greatest concentration of carillons is still found in The Netherlands, Belgium, and in (the North of) France, where they were mounted in the grand towers of rich cities as tokens of civic pride and status. Carillons were usually housed in church towers. Here in Mechelen is the largest musical instrument in the world. We all climbed the bell tower, and caught a beautiful view of the city.


Sister Reber and I enjoyed going up the tower together. We were amazed at the beautiful sight from the top of the tower.

Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me,
I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.










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