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!!!

Wednesday, January 04, 2012

The First Day in a Missionaries' Life

What a difference a good night's sleep can make! They were all so grateful for a place to lay their heads for the night! Sister Stout and Sister Páleniková were so happy to be here!
We fed the missionaries in shifts. Some were still waiting their turn for the shower.
Some of the missionaries left for the office before I had taken their picture.
l-r Sister Brubaker, Sisters Stout, Páleniková, Elders Mathis, Stoddard, Burgess, Andrews

Here are the other four right in downtown Leiden. Our mission office is directly right of them.
l-r Elder Wayman, Elder Mower, Elder McKee, and Elder Burton
After they finished getting briefed by Elder Jones on legality and Elder Benson on financial information, we walked to the center of Leiden to one of the oldest pannekoeken restaurants.
We invited the trainers to come with us. We all discovered what Holland does best! Pannekoeken!
President Brubaker and the trainers went back to the mission office for a meeting to teach and discuss with them their most important calling. We are so blessed in our mission with obedient, faithful, diligent trainers!
There is a beautiful "molen" not far from the mission office, right in the heart of Leiden.
The missionaries loved seeing this very familiar structure of the Netherlands. Our heart skips a beat every time we see a "molen".
The trainers were just finishing their meeting with President Brubaker when we returned. It was the long awaited time for the new missionaries to find out who would be their first companion & trainer and where they would be serving. Drum Roll.................
Elder McKee will be serving with Elder Leach in the city of Hengelo!
Elder Mower will be serving with Elder Klippel in the city of Spijkenisse!
Elder Burton will be serving in Groningen with Elder Wang!
Elder Mathis will be serving with Elder Pelaquim in the city of Heerenveen!
Elder Andrews will be serving with Elder van Overbeek in the city of Eindhoven!
Elder Wayman will be serving with Elder Benson in the city of Utrecht!
Sister Stout was excited to be serving in Amsterdam with Sister Jeffs!
Elder Frahm was so excited to be coming back to his 1st city, Leiden, and will be training Elder Burgess!
Elder Stoddard will be trained by Elder Brown in Kortrijk, Belgium!
Sister Páleniková was happy to go to Breda with Sister Hill!

The adventure begins........hold on....are you ready for the best two years yet?
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3 comments:

  1. mamajo8 January 2012 at 14:12

    Your blog is great!!!!! What a wonderful gift this is to the parents of these missionaries. We love all these missionaries...they just left us at the MTC. They were in our branch....please tell them Sister Hill says hello. We are glad they made it...you are going to love them too!

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  2. V.10 January 2012 at 21:38

    I love this! Thank you so much for posting. It means a lot to us back at home. :)

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  3. Norris Family10 January 2012 at 23:45

    I just have to add a small comment. Our family was living in Heerlen while we were stationed at the NATO Base in the area. My husband is in the US Army. We loved our time in the Netherlands. It is good to see pictures of Sis Palenikova (she was in our ward for about a year before we moved) and I also know Elder Burton from Canada. His family used to live in my Home ward. His uncle Wayne was an Elder in my mission which was the Salt Lake City mission. I miss living in the Netherlands such a beautiful country.
    Sincerely Sister Jill Norris (nee Bore)

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