Basketball on the Rhein River

Hey, Thanks for writing dad, I am glad that you still did not forget about me with Mom away at Girls camp, not too much has happened here either, Stani did not come to church last week, due to her sister that came into town, but her boys should be going to a youth activity on Thursday this week, and she should be coming to church again on this Sunday, and we already have another appointment scheduled with her on next Tuesday. Right now she is pretty much all we have going for us, and we are going to have to try and find somebody new now. Our other guy, Clark, has pretty much told us that he would never join the church because of its exclusivity, (we think he is gay...), Oh well, so it is. We have been geting up earlier to go and play basketball in the park lately, and its prety fun, we justgot done playing with our Ward Mission Leader, and that was way fun too. It was right next to the Rhein, on a beautiful day. I got that package from Ed, Tell him thanks alot for it, and that i will add it to my ever growing collection of Phantom Ranch shirts! I wrote Bro. Painter and Sis. Maas the other day, and Brad too. It sounds like everything there is going on normal as usual, so, take care and have fun in the heat! Until next time! Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker

Pray for Stani, Ryan and Lorenzo

Hey, That girls camp sounds way fun, I hope everyone has a good time and learns lots. I saw that dad wore my black tie in that black and white dance at the church, it looks good, better on me, but still good on him :) Well, for transfers, nothing is happening for me. I am staying in Wiesbaden, for the next 6 weeks, so, don`t send the bday package at the end of June, cause I might get transferred, between when you send it, and it gets here, I´ll tell you when...Yesterday, we had a really good lesson, with a referral from church, The member brought her to church, and she really enjoyed it, and we met with her and the family from church for FHE, and it went really well, and she said that she noticed a difference in their behavior after church, so it is looking promising right now, her name is stani, and her boys are ryan and Lorenzo, so if you could pray for them that would be appreciated, cause they seem really great right now. :) Man, Matt only has one more cycle and he is done, That will be exciting for everyone and him, have fun with that, and and then, the baby will be born, and then, I will...oh...Ill still have another year...thats ok...I will then be the only one on a mission, so you will send me like a package a week right? well, probably not, but we´ll see. Thats about it for me, today, we are going to go play frisbee golf, cause sister Niebergall is getting transferred to Düsseldorf, and she wanted to do that, so...thats it...Tshcüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker

Long Mother's day phone call

Hey, Matt never called me, oh well, he will be home soon enough, and then he can do whatever he wants! I thought of a couple more things for you to send for my birthday package, if you don`t mind :) 501 German Verbs 4th edition, and Lehi Roller Mills pancake mix, if you can even get that, but you might have to try and order that german verb book online from amazon or something, I was supposed to get one in the MTC, but never did, so that would be cool, and also the Great Apostasy, by James E. Talmage too, and the Wooden tie rack spinner thing. Thanks. Not too much has happened since i talked to you on Sunday for Mother's Day, so this might be a little short, expected. It was way nice to talk to you all and Michael for a good amount of time, sounds like everyone is just livin` along...me too. I wrote those letters already, and will send them today to Maas, and Painter, and Brad so that is good. Well, Take care, and know that I Love you all. Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker

Didn't get my letter?

I totally DID write last week. Yeah, this Sunday, I will call you around 11 or 12 your time, and you will just call back, like last time.. Oh, and mom, be sure to call michael from a cell phone as soon as I call home so he can come over too, like last time. Yeah, the work is going well, we have Clark, and we tried to introduce a baptismal calendar to help him gain a testimony and a goal to work for, but it didn`t really go the way we planned it, he has never answered our commitments with a yes or no, so well see, it is all up to him, that is what is so hard about the work sometimes, because you know it would help them, but they have to decide that for themselves, oh well, such is life, which is really really really hard sometimes, but we all gotta do it. Cool stuff about the garden, and that IS crazy that Sarah is starting high school, tell her to take German, I can help her with the homework, or French, cause then Matt will be home too :) or Steve actually, for Spanish...hmmm thats like all of the languages...whatever her heart tells her. We went to the Temple today in Frankfurt as a zone activity, and it was great, Imiss going to the temple, I am definitely going once a week at least, when I get home. Well, iIdon`t have too much more to say, Tonite we are going to have Enchiladas at amemers home, american, thus, sweet...Well Take care, and know that i will call you on Sunday, oh btw, if i forget to tell you on Sunday, Happy Mother`s Day and thanks for being a great mom, I love you! Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker

I had Schnitzel at the XXXXXL restaurant....

Right now I am chatting with Steve on gmail, its pretty sweet. Well, everything sounds good from home. It's pretty cool that you will be grandparents, man you are old... dad. Everything is going well here, we went to an XXXXXL restaurant today, and that means that we get huge portions, and can't finish the food at the restaurant, but it's really good. I had schnitzel, and it was good, after that we played frisbee golf. In our district we have 2 sisters, and they are pretty cool. Right now, we have a guy named Clark Kuntz you can pray for, he seems really close to getting baptized, but well see what happens, I'm sure some extra prayers wouldn't hurt :) Tomorrow we have ZONE CONFERENCE, and it should be fun. Oh, yeah, we have not really been running, other than to catch a bus here and there, so, yeah, pretty out of shape, running wise, but I have been doing situps and push ups everyday for a while, and that keeps me pretty good. We can give members money to go and shop for us at the base commissary, where all the americans shop, and they actually bring us food from there, without us paying, so its pretty sweet. The ward here is awesome, and Americans in general are awesome...we actually get referrals, which is way awesome, you should seriously give some referrals to the missionaries in the ward, it helps alot, and is all of our responsibilities, so do it! That is from the Prophet, by the way. Cool stuff about that pork shop, be sure to save some for me... :) Oh, mothers day is on may 10 right? We will have to coordinate, so you can call us again, cause that worked out pretty well last time, and should work again, so yeah, and be sure to call Michael K., and tell him too, I wrote to him and told him, but make sure that he willl be there as well. Well, April is already almost over, and the time is starting to fly, only a little longer...well, yeah, a little longer. :) Thank you so much for writing, and tell Heidi thank you so much for writing me, and that I love her, and that she is my favorite cousin, and that Spencer is a spaz...hehe... Well, take care, and know that I love you all very much. Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker

Peanut butter, cheeze whiz and root beer...

On Easter Sunday Mooker's oldest brother, Steven and his wife Tausha told us that they are expecting our first grandchild. I asked Steven if he told Mooker yet, and he told me that he actually told Mooker weeks ago, because he knew he could keep a secret. Mooker has now transferred to a new area of Germany. Be sure to see his new address. Postage is still 94 cents until May 11, then it increases to 98 cents.
Here is Elder Bentz's latest letter--

OK, so the ward here is AWESOME! Everyone is from America, and they all speak English, and are in the Military, and feed us american food! We went over to the Booth family for Easter, and we had burgers and dogs, and root beer, and it was sweet! They gave us peanut butter, and cheese wizz, and it was sweet. At another persons home they gave us more burgers and dogs, and creme soda and root beer, after we did some yard work, it was...SWEET! So yeah, Wiesbaden is pretty dang cool, and it is really hot now, not like the way it is in AZ, but still hot.
It is nice here in the South, and we have a way sweet distrist leader, Elder Curtis, and we have two sisters as well! It´s gonna be fun here. We don't have too much going on in the way of investigators, we have two americans, and another german I think, we bring the americans to our ward, and the germans to the other ward here, so different, but cool nonetheless. Well, Steve told me about that secret nearly a month ago, and I did not tell anyone, except like everyone in my district, but they don't know you, so it was ok. Yeah, I´ll go by Uncle Mooker. I told Steve to show the kid a picture of me as soon as he or she come out of the womb, so he/she will get to know me...maybe not. Happy Easter, and tell everone hi from me. Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Uncle Mooker

Letter sent to Auntie Sharon, April 8, 2009

Good luck with you Easter Primary lesson, The talk that Bro. Holland gave was powerful, and amazing. General Conference was great here. It is shown in all of the Stake centers, which for us, was in Düsseldorf, a little south of Wuppertal, it was great. And they had an english section too, so that was nice to hear some hymns in english for a change. The weather is doing really great here, and we are loving no more cold. I am getting transferred out of Wuppertal, and down to Wiesbaden, next to Frankfurt, so it will be nice. It is a military ward, and an english speaking ward, so that will be interesting, I hear they have Taco Bell on the base there, we will see. Well, take care, and know that I love you too, and am thankful for such a great family that I have. Tschüss! Love Elder Bentz aka Mooker