Wow! This is another one of those letters that I
have a TON to tell you all about! As you already know, I had transfers
this week. One Tuesday morning we packed up, said some final good-byes,
and headed out to downtown Puebla. I had some mixed emotions leaving,
but I'm sure that's how it always is when you leave an area that you've
been serving in for a long time. We arrived at the chapel which is
located on the street called Valsequillo in Puebla. My life has changed
180 degrees! I am know serving in downtown Puebla...in the City! The
ward is called Agua Azul. Our church building is actually the one that
everybody meets at for transfer meetings. It is so much different, but I
love it already. We have everything in our area! We have two plazas with
huge malls, Wal-mart, tons of restaurants, the mission offices, and we
actually have El Centro De Puebla which is the very center of Puebla! It
is the coolest area. I'm here with Elder Knowlton from Springville Utah
and he has 15 months on the mission (my first American comp.) and he is
really cool and a great missionary. I already know that I'm going to
learn a lot from him. As for the Spanish, don't worry, because we have a
goal to speak in Spanish all the time except for nights after planning.
We've actually done well with that already. Elder Knowlton is the
Leader of our District which consists of us and the Assistants to the
President haha. The mission home is in the area right next to ours, but
not too far. Also, the missionary couple and secretary of the mission
Elder and Sister De La Rosa are in our ward. It's been a big change for
me haha. We live in an apartment on Juan Pablo II (street) which is one
of the buiser streets in the area. Well that's where I am now! I'm sure
you have some questions, so I'll try to answer them next P-day.
Okay so I'm going to attempt to share as much as I
can with what we've been up to here in downtown Puebla. On Tuesday
afternoon we dropped off my bags and got straight to work. We had an
evening full of appointments. right from the start. I'm had to adjust a little
bit with my Spanish and we just interacting in general because the
people are a lot different in the City, but equally as nice and awesome.
Some people call this area the rich area because we have quite a bit of
rich people in our ward and in the area. As far as the work, we have a
ton of investigators that we are working with and about 4 right now that
are progressing really well. We have a lot more work here as far as
investigators. I'll have to tell you more about our investigators next
week. Wow I just don't know how to explain it. Hmm well we take a whole
lot of buses to get from place to place because the area is pretty big.
This week we taught a few people for the first time as well which was a
new and good experience for me. Well I'll tell you about two more things
we were able to do this week and then I've got to wrap it up. President
Reeves did give us permission to go to the baptism in Atexcac, so on Saturday we took a little trip back up there for the baptism. On Friday
Elder Olvera and his new comp called me and told me that Ennis wanted me
to baptize him...so I packed up all the white clothes and we headed out
there on a bus. The baptism went really well, and shortly after I said
bye to a few more people there and we headed back. It was about an all
day trip. It was a great experience! Well today after dropping off our
clothes with a member (they wash, dry, and fold all our clothes for us
every week!!!! Wooo!) and visiting the mission office for a few minutes,
we decided to head over to the Center of Puebla. Whoa. I thought I left
the country and I was in Spain or Rome or something. It is such a cool
city here we've got to come back to visit. There are huge old churches
everywhere. The center has the famous catholic church, and it's massive!
So cool. The center is really nice with trees, fountains, cool stores,
everything. I saw a ton of foreign people there too. After that we went
to what is called Plaza Dorada (golden plaza) and we browsed around the
mall because we had some extra time. It's been a way cool P-day.
I've gotta wrap it up. I hope you like the pictures I
sent you all. I think I'm going to send another email with more
pictures as well. Oh and before I forget...Dad you're going to be really
jealous...but we ate at a taco stand across the street from our house
on Juan Pablo II and.....Wow....The BEST tacos I've ever had in my
entire life!!! They were incredible. They are called Tacos Árabes which
are unique to Puebla only. They cost 14 peso for two huge tacos (that's
like a little more than 1 dollar). Anyway don't worry bout me we are
doing really well out here. I love getting to chance to teach
investigators a lot more. I've already had multiple spiritual experiences
here in the new area. I LOVE my mission. It is the best experience
ever. One interesting thing to tell you before I get off is that we've
found out that there is suppose to be 42 new missionaries arriving in 3
weeks at the end of this shortened transfer. 42! That means that there
is going to be a ton of new trainers, so President is really stressing
that we all prepare ourselves so that if we are asked to train we are
ready. Just in case Elder Knowlton is going to start helping me a lot
with my teaching and contacting skills, so that if I'm called to train
I'll be ready. Wow I don't feel ready yet, but who knows with all these
new missionaries coming. Well I love all of you so much. Keep up the
good work in Utah and remind me to share some of the spiritual
experiences I've had here already with you next week. Love you!
Con Amor,
Elder Kitchen
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