Belgium Brussels/Netherlands Mission: Traditions of Holland Enjoyed By Our Senior Missionaries

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!!!

Saturday, June 02, 2012

Traditions of Holland Enjoyed By Our Senior Missionaries

We have been anticipating this day for months! The senior couples in our mission met in a small village of Enter in the eastern part of Holland for a P-day outing together.

The young girls in the village wore the traditional costume, and re-enacted the herding of the geese . For hundreds of years thousands of geese were herded to Rotterdam and put on ships to England, so they would have their "Christmas Goose" for Christmas.