Sorry for not writing very much last week. It was a
pretty interesting p day. Dad asked for a quick review of what we did so
here it goes. He headed for Puebla on the ADO Travel bus from here in
Tehuacan at around 2 o'clock.
I had my final interview with President Reeves which went great. It
wasn't a full final interview, it was just him giving us a bunch of
great advice of what to do after the mission and stuff. He took us out
to Chili's after which was great. It was fun to be with the whole
generation and everything. Actually President Reeves is already gone! He
left like on Thursday when Pres. Stellmon arrived. I thought Pres.
Reeves was going to be here longer, but no he is already back in Arizona.
Crazy huh? We are having a special meeting with the new Pres. this
Wednesday. I'll met him just in time to say goodbye to him basically
haha.
Well thanks for letting me know what's been going
on. That's cool that you are having fun on your trips and everything. I'm
sure Tyler is super busy. What are the girls doing? I haven't heard
from them in a long time. This time of year is always fun right around
the 4th and everything huh? It's no big deal here in Mexico. Although,
the world cup of soccer has been going on for a few weeks and everyone
goes crazy here. It's on every TV in every store and everyone knows
about it and watches it. They tell us how teams are doing and stuff.
Apparently Mexico lost and everyone is mad about that. USA is still in.
It's a really big deal here. Is it that big of deal in the States?
Probably no right?
This week went pretty well. After that cool p day, I
stayed in Puebla for Presidents last change meeting and changes
(transfers). It was CRAZY! He made quite a few changes for the new
president and everything. He explained that many of us older
missionaries have all had good opportunities to serve in leadership
positions and that the missionaries (elders) just stopped coming and
many of us haven't left the mission either. Because of that, there was a
lot of good missionaries that haven't had the opportunity to be leaders
in the mission. So basically my whole generation of missionaries (there
is about 11 or 12) are all either normal senior comps or even junior
comps. I'm just a normal senior comp now with Elder Conrad and had been
serving as a District leader last transfer. Pres Reeves said it's what
he knew was right and needed to be done for the good of the mission in
the future. It's really cool though because now we have a ton of time to
work in our area. It now gives other missionaries an opportunity to learn in a
position of leadership. In our area we have been working hard. Benjamin
got baptized on Saturday!! (inv.) It was one of the best baptismal
services that I've ever been a part of. I don't have pics right now
sorry. Our other investigators are doing good, just that they didn't
make it to church. We are going to see why this week.
Well I'm basically rolling into my last month on the
mission. It's pretty weird. I can't really comprehend the idea of being
home...honestly. I try not to think about it very much. It's a goal of
mine to end my mission really well and with no regrets. Sometimes it's
hard to avoid slight trunky-ness though. I'll do my best! The work is
true!! I'm so glad to be where I am and to be doing what I'm doing. Stay
well and be happy and healthy. Be strong in the church and in the
Gospel. Love the Gospel. It's the most important.
con amor,
Elder Ryan Kitchen
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