Kits can be pretty intimidating looking. There's a pretty picture of a plane on the box but when you look inside all you find is a bunch of balsa and a couple sacks of hardware. It can take all of one's imagination to see the plane.

The trick as others have mentioned is to just take it one step at a time. I like to start by separating the parts out into baggies, for example, all the wing parts into one baggy. Typically you start by building either the wing or the stab and once you've done that you start to think: "Well maybe there really IS a plane in all this balsa!"

With the advent of CA glue a wing can be built in a single evening. Two wings in a couple of evenings. Most of the skeletal plane in a week of daily effort. Very quickly your plane will take shape. So take heart -- and take your time -- and get an ARF for the meantime.