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, January 12, 2012

Zone Conferences Begin With Great Gusto!

Our first Zone Conference was held in Leiden, the Netherlands with the Hague and the Apeldoorn zones. President Brubaker commended the missionaries on their hard work and success they had in 2011! Baptisms were up and each missionary should feel pleased with the progress that we made as a mission. Now for 2012.......missionaries listened intently on how we can double our baptisms. We are the highest in the area for baptismal commitments. Our missionaries are the best when it comes to committing people to baptism in the 1st or 2nd lesson. President Brubaker pin-pointed it to two things:
1. Become more spiritually prepared
2. Dramatically improve our teaching skills.
After a great morning of learning and instruction from their president, the missionaries were ready for a break! We had some serious birthday celebrating to do! We had three birthdays to celebrate!Elder McCarlie!
Elder Frahm!
and last but not least.....Elder Hendrickson!
Their fellow missionaries had so many nice things to say about them!
Elder Bjork led us all in the Dutch birthday song!
Elder Salden inspired us all to keep our apartments more neat and tidy!
Sister Salden taught the missionaries some tricks on how to keep their food from going stale in this humid climate! We are incredibly blessed to have the Saldens in our mission. They work endlessly day in and day out to provide a nicer environment for our missionaries! There isn't anything these two can't do. They both are the fountain of youth!
Sister Everton is our mission nurse. She loves our missionaries so much, and we couldn't be more blessed than to have our own loving and kind health expert!
She talked to the missionaries about 4 most important things they can do to stay healthy on their missions!
1. Wash hands.
2. Drink at least 8 glasses of water a day.
3. Aerobic exercise every day.
4 Eat healthy and don't forget about fruits and vegetables!
She inspired us all to wash those hands frequently and keep water with us at all times. The Apeldoorn Zone couldn't wait to put into practice all they have learned today!
The Hague Zone is ready to reach for the stars, and make this the best year yet in the
Belgium Netherlands Mission!
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