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, June 02, 2011

Bruges-The Holy Blood Procession

Every year on Ascension Day since 1291 the procession of the Holy Blood makes Bruges a very special place to be. President Brubaker decided to include Ascension Day in Bruges as part of our Leadership Council Meeting. We all met in Gent for Leadership Meeting, and then we all came by train to Bruges, only 1/2 hour away.
The missionaries had their own personal tour guide, for a short time before the procession started.
Charming Opening of the Procession
Half the parade is representing scenes from the old and New Testament interpreted by guild, trades, brotherhoods and chambers of rhetoric from the burgundain period. The second part of the procession is devoted to the relic of the blood of Jesus brought to Bruges by Derrick of Alsace, Count of Flanders after the second crusade in 1150. Ever since, the precious relic has been kept in the basilica of the Holy Blood at the burg square. Carried around once a year by two prelates in a golden shrine and worshipped in this procession by the members of the noble brotherhood of the Holy blood.

Joseph's Coat of Many Colors
Moses and the Ten Commandments
Mary, Joseph and the baby Jesus.
The children of Israel

Christ carrying the cross.
The Roman soldiers.

This impressing parade closes with the festive sounds of a mobile carillon.
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