Elder Schroeder's Mission Blog

Well, this week’s been good. We got some changes here in my area, zone, and district, so it’s been new but, as usual, it’s the same old missionary work thing. It doesn’t really matter who your companion is or what’s up with the area, you just keep on working — contacting people, teaching people, cleaning houses that no one has lived in for 10 years…

… Good stuff!

It’s been great here. I suppose I’ll start with the changes that have happened:

1. New companion

On Tuesday Elder Marino left to go to his new area in Tahuantinsuyo, and I’m still here in Año Nuevo II, Comas, but this time with Elder Gutierrez.

I didn’t really know him a whole lot up until now because we’ve only been together one week, but I do know that my companion pattern keeps on going:

Peruvian — Other country!
Elder Terrones — Peruvian (Trujillo)
Elder Pastenes — Chilean
Elder Mayta — Peruvian (La Oroya)
Elder Rodriguez — Chilean
Elder Ushiñahua — Peruvian (Loreto)
Elder Rioja — Bolivian
Elder Marino — Peruvian (Huanuco)
Elder Gutierrez — Bolivian

So that’s all good. I’ll let you know more about him as time goes on. But at least he has two qualities that I really like in a companion:

Not really prideful — This is huge! Prideful companions are the worst because they’re always trying to show that they’re better so we work their way!

Funny — This is also important. If you spend the day with little moments of laughter, everything is always better!

Then, in the zone (and thus in my district) we got a few flip-flops. For some reason, Presidente Godfrey thought about having only two district leaders in the entire zone, leaving me and Elder Escobar (the other DL, who was in my district but got switched out because he became the leader of his own district) with five companionships in each district! I’ve only ever had four, maximum! Buuuuuut… then they decided to put three, like before, but had to change around the districts because now Elder Escobar and his companion, Elder McMurray, aren’t part of my district! So they did some crazy stuff and I ended up being DL of the zone leaders and the hermanas capacitadoras, or sister training leaders, instead of the hermanas in Belaunde like before!

But wait — there’s more! Because a few other companionships got changed around, I ended up with Hermana Gilson, one of the hermanas that was in my district in Villa Hermosa (my last area, for those that don’t remember), and Hermana Cárdenas, the hermana from Spain that was in Belaunde in my last district, even though she changed areas! Basically, Hermana Cárdenas changed areas in the same zone, and so she’s still in my district! It’s kind of cool (and weird) that she just changed areas!

Now, before anyone gets the dumb idea that I’m excited about this for… other reasons (Because she’s a hermana and I’m an Elder, basically) (I know SOMEONE raised their eyebrows when I mentioned this!), I’ll tell you the really awesome miracle that happened with this change, which is why I’m excited:

The hermanas capacitadoras do work visits with the other hermanas every once in a while, and a few weeks ago they did one in which Hermana Cárdenas went to the area of the Hermanas Capacitadoras. While there, they contacted a random woman in the street and found out that this woman was a member, but the rest of her family wasn’t! So they set an appointment with the woman, and the next day Hermana Cárdenas went back to her area in Belaunde (like normally happens after a work visit) and the Hermanas Capacitadoras went to visit this family… And discovered that this woman is Hermana Cárdenas´s aunt (or something like that), meaning that her husband and kids are her uncle and cousins! And they decided to be baptized!

Fast forward to last Tuesday, and Hermana Cárdenas has a transfer — to the area where her aunt, uncle, and cousins live! JUST IN TIME FOR THEIR BAPTISM!!! It’s like a story you’d find in the Ensign or something: Of the millions of people in Peru, Hermana Cárdenas contacts her family, and then she gets a transfer just in time to baptize them! It’s awesome! (It’s also kind of funny: Hermana Cárdenas is so pumped that she’s been super happy all week!)

Anyway, that’s all I’ve got! ¡Hasta luego!

— Elder Schroeder

This week I had to write a really long letter to my mission president because I have a lot on my mind, and my companion’s getting bored, so I’m going to have to keep this short, sorry! Next week!

Anyway, first, we’ve got cambios again! I don’t know what’ll happen around here (I wish they’d tell us before 9:30pm on Monday night!), but I’m pretty sure Elder Marino is going to another area and I’m staying. I don’t know if I’ll stay District Leader or even if I’ll stay — we’ve been thinking that Presidente Godfrey might close our area because we’re not having much success (Of the 72 people we’ve contacted, 28 have said they’d like to hear our message, and of them, 8 live in another area!), but either way it’ll be interesting! (I’ll find out tonight, but you’ll find out next week! Ha ha!)

As for the other things that have happened this week, I’m just going to include what I sent to my mission president. You’ll have to translate it with Google Translate because I’m too lazy to write it all over again in English!

“Lastly, I want to share some miracles that we’ve seen this week:

“Esta semana solo tuvimos un INCA en la capilla, pero cómo él llegó a ir es el milagro: Le enseñamos el lunes y le preguntamos si estaría dispuesto a asistir a la capilla, leer el Libro de Mormón, y orar todos los días. Él nos dijo que le parece un poco difícil y no quiso, pero el Espíritu nos guió a decir, “¿Y qué haría para estar con su familia para siempre?” Se quedó en silencio por un segundo y dijo, “Cuando lo pone así, ¡sí, voy a asistir y leer!” (Milagro parte 1)
Bueno, llegó el domingo sin que le encontremos más y él no contestó su celular. Después de la Santa Cena, salimos a llamarle y le encontramos afuera de la capilla con su moto taxi. Nos dijo que vino una vez más temprano, pero vio a todas las personas en corbata y pantalón y él sólo tenía jeans y un polo, y se avergonzó y se fue a trabajar en su moto. Mientras, una familia de miembros (¡Vestidos en jeans y polos!) chaparon su moto ¡y pidieron que los llevara a la capilla! Él pensó, “Si ellos pueden entrar así, yo también puedo!” y ellos llegaron y nos encontraron afuera. Él investigador nos dijo que Dios le está llamando aquí, porque Dios le guió hacia la capilla dos veces para que asistiera! (Milagro parte 2)

“El otro milagro que vimos es que ¡una de nuestras investigadoras recibió su respuesta! Elle ha estado orando para saber si José Smith fue un profeta y ha tenido sueños en que Dios le ha dicho que sí, pero ello no lo ha aceptado todavía (Sabemos que Dios le ha dicho que sí por medio de estos sueños porque podemos sentir el Espíritu cuando nos los cuenta). Ella tiene tanta fe que Dios le va a responder por medio de sus sueños (aunque le hemos explicado que normalmente vienen por medio del Espíritu), y el otro día tuvo un sueño en que ¡vio a Jesucristo (bueno, sólo sus pies) y Él la habló y le dijo, “Ya te he dado una respuesta; sólo sigue mi palabra”! ¡Sabíamos que realmente era una respuesta de Dios porque ella describió la voz que escuchó como la voz que se describe en 3 Nefi 11:3, y nosotros también nos sentimos el Espíritu cuando nos lo contó! (El único problema es que todavía no quiere aceptar una fecha bautismal porque le falta la fe de creer…)”

Translation:

This week we only had an INCA in the chapel, but how he came is the miracle: We taught him Monday and asked him if he would be willing to attend the chapel, read the Book of Mormon, and pray every day. He told us that it seems a bit difficult and he did not want to, but the Spirit led us to say, “And what would you do to be with your family forever?” He was silent for a second and said, “When you put it that way, Yes, I will attend and read!” (Miracle part 1)

Well, he arrived Sunday although we hadn’t seen him since and he didn’t answer his cell phone. After the sacrament, we went out to call him and found him outside the chapel with his motorcycle taxi. He told us that he came earlier, but he saw all the people in ties and nice pants and he only had jeans and a polo, so he was ashamed and went to work with his motorcycle. Meanwhile, a family of members (dressed in jeans and polos!) rented his motorcycle taxi and asked to be taken to the chapel! He thought, “If they can come in like this, I can too!” And they came and found us. He told us that God is calling him here, because God led him to the chapel twice to attend! (Miracle part 2)

The other miracle we saw is that one of our investigators received her answer! She has been praying to know if Joseph Smith was a prophet and has had dreams that God has said yes, but she has not yet accepted it. (We know that God has said yes through these dreams because we can feel the Spirit when she tells us about them.) She has so much faith that God will respond through her dreams, although we have explained that they usually come through the Spirit. The other day she had a dream in which she saw Jesus Christ (well, only his feet) and He spoke to her and said, “I have already given you an answer; Just follow my word!” We knew it was truly God’s response because she described the voice she heard as the voice described in 3 Nephi 11:3, and we felt the Spirit when she told us! Problem is that she still does not want to accept a baptismal date because she lacks the faith to believe…

Cool, right?!

And then here’s some pictures, just ’cause:

Service as a district:

And, to show just how much I’ve assimilated myself in the Peruvian culture, I present my solution to cooking noodles:

1. In an electric pitcher because we don’t have a stove or a pot

2. With a spoon attached to a hanger because the steam is, obviously, very hot and the spoon isn’t long enough to scrape the bottom of the pitcher

3. In an electric frying pan because the boiling water leaves the pitcher as bubbles and I’m too lazy to clean it up

See you next week!

— Elder Schroeder

AAAAUUGH! I’VE GOT ONLY 9 MONTHS LEFT!

Sorry, that’s just kind of scary for me. I don’t want to finish my mission, and I’m kind of freaking out. What the heck am I going to do with my life?!

Anyway, I’m kind of just writing this email so that you know I’m not dead or something. I’m not entirely sure what to tell you guys because it’s been an interesting week, but not really with stories or anything. This week I’ve just had a kind-of-tough mission experience.

This entire cambio I’ve been struggling a little bit just because there’s so much stuff that I feel like I’m doing wrong, and it’s been hurting my pride more than anything. I’ve been feeling useless because I can’t help as much as I wanted, but I didn’t know that it was because I’m so prideful until recently, when my companion burned me a little for complaining so much (I’m a bit of a whiner, as you know) and I realized that I was whining because I was trying too hard to be useful… but I was doing it by myself, without God’s help. I can’t do this without Him, but I was trying to do it anyway because I thought I could (man, I’m prideful!). So once I realized that, everything else fits into place and I’m becoming better.

This has happened before; it seems the Lord needs to give me a giant smack upside-the-head at times to humble me a little, and quite honestly I’m happy with it. The process is a little tough, but at least I’m improving! That’s what I value most: That even if I’m pretty dumb, at least I won’t be half as dumb after my mission is over! If it helps me avoid doing tonterías that still bother my conscience (?) months later, bring it on!

Yeah, so that was the more depressing– and more hopeful– part of my week. The rest of it was all pretty good, mostly because my companion and I finally ate the half-pound Reese’s I got for Christmas!

The look you see here on my companion’s face is the look of pure ecstasy! Because we’re eating giant Reese’s, of course! Who can’t be happy about giant Reese’s?!

And this week we finally got the most awesome t-shirt I have made in my entire mission:

ISN’T THAT AWESOME?! Applause for me (for being my idea), for my district (for not forgetting their childhood so much that they think Pokémon isn’t cool anymore), to Dad (for making the images), and to Yoyi, our clothing guy, for fixing the shirt and everything!

But yeah, that’s all for now! ¡Chao!

— Elder Schroeder

Happy New Year.

Sorry, my computer’s a little broken — or at least the keyboard is — so I can’t use exclamation marks or anything else above the letters. So this email will probably be really boring, sorry.

I can’t even make jokes without the exclamation mark to make them interesting. Crud.

Anyway, Feliz Año Nuevo. This week has been good, but it’s really difficult for us just because everyone’s family is in town and thus they don’t want us to visit them. I don’t really blame them, but we already had our Christmas mission celebration and now we don’t have anything else to take up our time with, aside from walking around looking for people to teach and avoiding explosives that are probably illegal. I got some sweet pictures of the explosions, but it’s pretty easy when the entire skyline is a series of explosions lasting 15 minutes.

I wonder how many calls the firemen get these kinds of nights… Maybe not too many, just because most of the houses are made out of cement, but I bet the hospital’s pretty occupied.

We finished watching the fireworks and then went to go to bed.

… Or tried to, because then the cantina in front of our house started up the music and we basically didn’t sleep because it was so loud and they didn’t stop until sometime around 9:00am…

Then earlier in the week we did a service project that ended up being pretty interesting.

A recent convert asked us to help her take apart a pre-made house that they’d set up on the roof so that they could move:

… And everything was going just fine until ELDER MCMURRAY FELL OFF THE ROOF.

I didn’t really know what was going on because I happened to be on one side of the wall while he was trying to pry the wall apart on the other. Then all of a sudden I hear his companion, Elder Escobar, yell, “No¡ No¡ NOO¡” and then I hear a big thud accompanied by a few other strange noises. I thought, “What was THAT?” and then it dawns on me… “CRUD…”

He was a little shaken and beaten up, but other than that he was OK. We sent him to the mission medic just to be sure, and he got to rest a little, but it wasn’t anything serious. I just hope he doesn’t have any super dangerous service projects in the future — he’s only got four weeks in the field and he’s already falling off roofs and stuff.

But yeah, all good here. Hope it’s the same there. WELCOME TO 2017.

— Elder Schroeder

Merry Christmas! (They’re still celebrating it here!)

One of the kind of cool, kind of not-cool things about Peru: They celebrate a lot! Christmas celebrations for them start on the 24th and keep on going to the 25th, and then after that they just keep on celebrating until New Years! It’s also pretty awesome ’cause almost all their celebrations involve blowing things up:

Sorry if the camera was a little shaky — there were a lot of explosions going off at the time!

Funny story: The guys below us bought a type of firework called “la mama rata” (the mother rat) or something like that and it’s basically a stick of dynamite! When it exploded, it was so loud the windows shook and my compi and I — On the balcony of the second floor! — could feel the shockwave! (It scared the guys below us so much that they didn’t light any more of those after that!)

I don’t really have any funny stories or interesting events from this week, aside from a few photos I took, so I’ll just share those and an explanation:

We had a mission Christmas party:

While there, we had lunch — actual steak!

One of my Christmas gifts:

How nice — they included a user manual! (Yes, a 2-inch-long flashlight apparently needs a user manual) (Good thing I read it, too! 5 pages of how to twist it to turn it on and off! I never would have figured that out just by looking at it!)

Here’s basically what our companionship study is like:

(These were gifts for my companion and me. They dance in the sun, so we did companionship study outside on the balcony to see if they work)

That’s all! Merry Christmas, and Happy New Year, too! See you in 2017!

— Elder Schroeder

¡Feliz navidad a todos!

… I cannot type in Spanish. If I try, I end up with problems for the next 5 minutes because I have to remember where the keys are and how to spell things!

I think my problem is that I can actually speak Spanish now (Still got some grammatical errors there, but for the most part I’m good now!), so I don’t need to translate Spanish to English and vice-versa (Which is, quite honestly, one of the most awesome things about learning and speaking two languages! Now they’ve become two separate worlds, and I can enter both of them! I just need to improve a little bit more so I sound like a native speaker!).

But anyway, because of this I start typing in Spanish but I’m used to English, so it takes a minute to adjust to Spanish, and then I can’t switch back because I have to calibrate my mind for English again!… And don’t even get my started on texting! Here in the mission is the first time I’ve ever had a cell phone that’s basically mine (For all of you who just gasped in shock, no, I never had a cell phone, and even now it’s not really mine — it’s the area’s!), but since we can send unlimited messages we use that a lot to communicate. Sooooo I end up texting everyone, and I’ve gotten used to texting in Spanish! I tried it in English, but it doesn’t work, so I just do Spanish now!

This week wouldn’t really be very interesting for all of you, just because we didn’t do much, but I’ve had a lot of “lightbulb!” moments lately that have been cool. For example, I’ve realized that the only reason I understand and use some parts of Spanish grammar is because of moments when someone used it and then all of a sudden it clicked and I understood the purpose and how it’s used! Little things like that helped me understand it all, and it’s really cool to see how it’s natural for me now.

Another cool thing is that I’ve learned a little bit of psychiatry! Being district leader has forced me to analyze the people in my district to see how they are and what they need, so I’ve learned how to understand little signs and things like that. I’m not an expert or anything, but I’ve noticed a difference! It’s kind of cool that it’s just natural now! (Of course, I’m still kind of a moron, but at least I have a better idea of how everyone’s doing!)

Speaking of my district, here’s a photo of the new people:

(Well, minus my companion, ’cause he took the picture…)

We painted the house of a member, so that’s why my hand’s blue. Anyway, left to right:

Hermana Bozarth, Hermana Cárdenas, Hermana Domitila, Élder McMurray, Élder Schroeder, and Élder Escobar. Elder Escobar is training Elder McMurray, and Hermana Domitila is Hermana Cárdenas’s new companion!… And if you believed that, you might not know me OR the mission very well!

And then we also implemented one of the greatest ideas ever conceived in my mission:

We bought a stamp! We got sick and tired of having to write everything by hand, so we bought a stamp with the church’s address and stamped everything!

But yeah, this concludes my super exciting week! Have a merry Christmas, and for those who I’m going to Skype on the 25th, I’ll see you then!

— Elder Schroeder

I’m starting to get scared that the end of my mission is coming too fast! Even if the mission is tough, draining, and stressful at times, it’s been AWESOME! It’s very special to be able to focus everything in serving God and changing people’s lives for the better. I’m not a really great missionary or anything — far from it — but I’m loving what I’m doing!

Anyway, as of note, we’ve had a couple of changes in the mission rules (AGAIN!) so now I can use the computer for as long as I want, but the problem is that it costs money, so this week I’m not going to write to everyone like I want because I already used a lot of time working on a few other little side projects, but next week I’ll be able to do what I want! (To be honest, these little side projects have been waiting for almost 6 months to be finished, but I never had time before! ¡Por fin!)

But yeah, I kind of left you guys hanging last week with the cambios and all, so I’ll start with that. First, I’m still with Elder Marino:

And if you’re wondering about his incredibly stylish hat and the cotton earplugs, we did a service project sanding cement walls so they can be painted, and it makes a lot of noise! And when you clean the ceiling, all the cement dust falls in your hair, so he had the hat! (The thing I don’t understand is why we decided that the guy who’s 5′ 4″ should clean the ceiling!)

And in my district, we’ve had a few changes, but I’ll wait until next week to show you who they are ’cause I still don’t have any píctures of the newbies in my district (I’m still District Leader!) (Poor missionaries…!)

In local news, my bag finally up and died on me:

DANG IT!

I was hoping to use it until the end of the mission and then burn it or something to celebrate (That idea’s still in process!), but unfortunately the strap broke and now I can’t use it. And that’s the only thing that’s broken! But I guess I know what my Christmas gift for myself is going to be! (I also guess I shouldn’t carry around the Bible, the Triple Combination, two Books of Mormon, 10 folletos, a bottle of water, a flashlight, and the Ward Directory in the future…!)

And then, just for kicks, here’s a cute picture of a kitten the size of my shoe:

Have a good week! I’ll write next time with more stuff! (My companion’s a little bored now… He’s been waiting for a half-hour!)

— Elder Schroeder

¡Cambios! (Again!) And I’ve got 14 months!

I’ll be honest, I have no clue how I have 14 months in the mission. Part of it is that I feel like I just finished a year, and that’s what I tell everyone: “Tengo más o menos un año por aquí en Lima”! But I’m not lying! The other thing is that I should have almost 15, if we go according to cambios and assume that every cambio is 1.5 months (6 weeks), becuase I have:

1 cambio in the CCM
4 cambios in Machu Picchu, Canto Grande, San Juan de Lurigancho
4 cambios in Villa Hermosa, Collique, San Felipe
1 cambio in Año Nuevo 2, Año Nuevo, Comas

So that should be 10 cambios, or 15 months! Either way, I’m scared because my mission’s coming to an end and I don’t want to finish!

… Well, to be honest, after this cambio, I kind of do.

This has definitely been the hardest cambio in my mission up to this point– spiritually, emotionally, physically, area-wise, and ward-wise.

Spiritually because I realized just how much I need to teach with the Spirit and I realized that I haven’t been doing that much and I’ve really been striving to learn how to teach with the Spirit. I’ve realized that the difference between a good missionary and a great missionary is how much they teach with the Spirit, because the Spirit is what adds power to our teaching.

Emotionally, this has been tough because it’s hard to be excited to work when every day is basically trying to find the sort-of interested people that we contacted the other day and contacting new people because we have nothing else to do.

This is also why it’s been the hardest, area-wise– we’re always trying to find people to teach, but a lot of them reject us, unlike my other areas where everyone was willing to listen to us but didn’t want to change their lives according to what we taught. Then it’s just been really crazy, and that makes anyone stressed!

Physically, it’s been tough because our area is 1/3 flat, 2/3 giant cerro (I would use “hill”, but that doesn’t really do it justice. In Spanish they have two words for “hill”, and “cerro” works better). We managed to go up the giant hill in 10 minutes, bottom-to-top, but we had to pause for 3 to take a break, so… yeah! And then the ward here has had problems with missionaries (Another ward like that!) and we’re trying to get everything all fixed so they’ll help us and trust us a little bit more.

… But that doesn’t mean that we haven’t celebrated and had some fun!

We’ve done some more interesting service projects (If you count hauling sand and rocks (Again!) as interesting!) (Man, I burn every time I go out in the sun! I feel like a vampire!)

I took a victory photo ’cause I made it to the end of my Spanish book! (Take that, Spanish!)

We ate breakfast in our district meeting because it was Elder Escobar’s birthday (The Hermanas gave him a charmander stuffed animal!) and because I’m just the most awesome district leader ever.

And then we just felt like being cool (Obviously because we are!)

So it’s been a good, hard cambio, but it’s all good!

— Elder Schroeder

P.S. I’ll let you know what happens in the cambio! Stay tuned!

Well, I’ve had a tough week. Thanksgiving was kind of a disaster, I’m struggling a lot in my area, and I’m trying to keep everyone happy in my district but they’re all kind of discouraged.

… After reading all that, I realized it makes me sound like I’m worse off than I actually am! I’m fine, but just kind of stressed, as you can see from that disaster that I wrote up there. 🙂

Anyway, starting with Tuesday, I accidentally stepped on a dog! It was playing with me by biting my leg (not hard), so when I moved my leg a little I stepped on its leg! That’s when it started whining and biting my finger because my hand was the closest thing to its mouth! It got me pretty good, although you don’t really see it in the picture.

… But either way it was kind of funny!

As I said, Thanksgiving was tough because I didn’t have much food and you can’t really buy much variety here in the stores, so I just got some crackers, bread, a mango, a chocolate bar, and chocolate milk and called it good.

But later in the day we decided to decorate for Christmas because, well, Thanksgiving’s over and what else are we going to do?!

And then we had a little party with hymns as the party music. AWWWWW; YEAH!

But that’s all the time I’ve got for today! Next week’ll be better, and I’ll let you know what other interesting stuff happens!

— Elder Schroeder

To start this thing off, I think I’m going to ask that you forgive my grammar and spelling mistakes because I’m using a computer from 1990 and the letters aren’t very clear on the screen, so I’m just kind of going by what it seems like to me. I really miss having a computer… I’ve only got an hour and a half to do everything, and I miss having a computer that actually works well…

I think Thanksgiving is this week, but I have to admit that I’m not exactly sure. They don’t celebrate it here in Peru, so I’m just going according to what my calendar says. I want to do something cool, but I’ll admit I don’t have any ideas — food is kind of expensive, and everything I buy I would have to buy today. Maybe I’ll just buy a liter of ice cream and eat it all — you get just as full as if you’d had eaten turkey, pie, mashed potatoes, and stuffing! (The only problem is that it has absolutely no nutrients whatsoever! But at least it’s not GMO!)

This week was a little interesting, with a few milestones, strange events, and some cool spiritual experiences, so I’ll consider it a success.

First, I finished the Green Book! I don’t actually know what it’s called, or why it’s called the Green Book (it’s actually white, but with a little bit of green on the front and the spine), but it’s the book I use to study Spanish. I’ve been working through it and would have finished it a long time ago if I actually had time to study Spanish! But I finally finished all the practices and stuff, so the only thing left to do is read the dictionary to learn how to say the stuff I want. The grammar is really hard, but the thing that stops me from being able to express myself are the words. I have to use the same words for every situation (For example, in English I can say, “my arm hurts” and, “my arm aches” and it’s basically the same, but with a slight difference. In Spanish, I can only say it one way, and it’s limiting!)

As for strange events, the first is that I had to do a couple of unplanned acts for the ward talent show we had. First they told us about five minutes before that the performers still hadn’t shown up, so we had to sing “I Am a Child of God” in Spanish, Portugues, and English, and after that I decided to to a kata (a martial arts performance) because we had investigatores and had to make a good impression, so I filled some time with that. I was really rusty with the English!

The other interesting event was that I was walking down the street and out of nowhere some guy walked up to me and asked me why I wanted to kick him out of my country. I was a little confused until I realized that Trump is President now, so I had to explain that I didn’t do anything!

But yeah, that’s it for this week because I’m out of time. ¡Hasta luego!

— Elder Schroeder