Hey Family,
It was good talking with you on Christmas. Sorry I had to cut off the phone call a little short. We had to drive down to Grand Rapids which is about 1 1/2 hour drive from lansing to pick up President Gardners daughter and Son in laws Luggage. There plane was schedruled to fly in on Chistmas eve at about 2:00 but there was a major delay and they had to fly into the Detroit airport. they ended up getting back here to lansing at about 11:00pm. Anyway, Christmas was fun. After driving to Grand Rapids we headed over to the mission home and ate some dinner with the Gardners. This last week has flown by pretty quick. We took preparation day on monday and went back up to Grand Rapids and played basketball with the entire GR Zone. That is where the best basketball is in the mission right know. It was really fun and we got a little exercise in. We then went over to the bowling alley and went bowling with the zone. THere were 24 of us missionaries there so we took up 4 lanes and had unlimited bowling for 2 hours for only $7.00. The highest I scored was a 127. That was our fun for the week. On Tuesday we went over Portland which is right outside of Kalamazoo. We spent the night with the elders there and went to district meeting with them on wednesday morning. It was good. Its funny how as an assisant a lot of missionaries are kind of scared of you. Like they want to do everything perfect around you because they think that what ever goes on it will go back to the mission president. Anyway, it was fun. Later that afternoon we went to the airport to pick up a new missionary. He was serving in a foreign mission, broke his leg, went home for four months and got called to finish his mission in Michigan. He's a good missionary and will help the work alot. We definately can use him. When I came out there were about 184 missionaries and know we only have 133. The funny thing is that we are baptising more know then last year at this time. We had 31 baptisms in the month of december. Anyway, back to Elder Dew, he was supposed to get here at 3:30 but his flight was delayed and he didn't get here till 7:45pm. The following day we ended up spending the whole day in the car. We were supposed to take Elder Dew to his area in Big Rapids but instead we ended up driving from Lansing to Kalamazoo to Saginaw to Kalamazoo back to Lansing. It was about a 10 hour trip. There is a new missionary who came out this last transfur and has been having problems with his ancle from a past football injury and there is a member in Saginaw who is a surgeon so we took him to see the surgeon. It was a long day. On friday we had our first Transfur meeting which lasted about 4 hours. Its fun doing transfurs. Its funny because you get to hear what President really thinks about all the missionaries individually. Its kinda fun knowing everything about everyone. Tons of missionaries are always asking me for scoop or for an update on where they are going next. It was cool. This next week we have individual zone conferances so we will be doing a lot of driving around the state. Hopefully I will get to go up to Traverse City. We will be doing that all week. Life is good. I bought a big Book of Mormon that has 8 1/2- 11 paper and have been marking it all up starting fresh. Its neat how everything links together so well. I hope you are feeling gradually better mom, and if not just think about Eating rice..... :-) And Amy, Congrats on Getting engaged you frootcake. You better wait till I get home. Anywho, I love you all. Thanks for all the packages and letters.
Love, Elder Brubaker
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