Hello! Bonjour! Hola! I'm a missionary!

Hola! Bonjour! Hello! Aloha!

Hi, I'm Sister Katia Valladares. I preach the gospel to the four corners of the world. I'm currently serving a mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors' Center, and I LOVE it!

I'm from Tegucigalpa, HONDURAS, a beautiful and amazing small country with great people that have amazing hearts. I was raised speaking spanglish and I use it a lot on my mission. I was born in the capital of Honduras and have lived there my whole life. I'm a very family-oriented person and have a really good relationship with them. They are my best friends!

I grew up reading the scriptures with them and praying as a family. I'm happy because I know my purpose here on earth. I know where I come from, why I'm here and where I'm going. The gospel of Jesus Christ has provided the answers for those questions for me and my family.
When I was 20 I decided I wanted to share the happiness I have in my life with others. As members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints we have the privilege to voluntarily serve missions for 18 months( the sisters) and two years(the elders). I felt that I needed to serve a mission, turned in my papers and 4 weeks after that I received my call. I know that we are called by a prophet of God to share what we know, and I know that the message that we share is true.
I opened up my call, where we receive a letter telling us where we are called. I then read I was called to serve in the Arizona Mesa Mission, at the Mesa Arizona Temple Visitors' Center.
I'm so happy to be serving a mission now, it's the best decision I've ever made in my life. Soon after getting my call I had some months to prepare and flew to Provo, Utah, to the Missionary Training Center. There I spent 3 weeks preparing myself to teach the gospel and a week to learn about my call at a Visitors' Center. I learned to be myself and met people from all over the world.
Now I've been out almost 10 months. I love to serve the people here in Mesa, Arizona.
When I got here I realized that there's many people out there that need to know what I know. I love the dry heat, the tall palm trees and the mexican food. I teach people from all over the world through the internet. I call people in their countries, I use skype, facebook, blogs etc to share the gospel with everyone.

My sister was helping me before to post some things in this blog, now I'll use this blog to post what I learn and what we share as missionaries. I hope you can all feel that what I'm sharing is what you needed for that day.
I know that God loved me, He loves all of His children, He wants us to be happy, that's why He sent His son Jesus Christ, who established His Church and who guides us today. God calls a prophets now like He did in ancient times, and the gospel of Jesus Christ, that was lost for a period of time, has been restored now on the earth by a prophet called Joseph Smith. I know this is true, you can know that for yourself as you read The Book of Mormon- another testament of Jesus Christ, and pray about it.

I'm soooo happy to be in contact with you!

Abrazos y besos...

with amor,

Sister Katia Valladares

I got my Call!!!

El martes 24 de abril, dos dias despues de mi cumpleaños numero 21, abri mi llamamiento misional! YAY! Fue super emocionante. En realidad mi llamamiento llego el dia despues de mi cumpleaños, pero lo tuve en mis manos hasta el martes 24. El esperar un llamamiento misional es de las experiencias mas emocionantes que he vivido. Creo que esas 4 semanas que espere a que llegara mi carpeta misional, fueron las mas largas que he pasado este año hahaha. ¡Se pasaban tan lentos los dias! Al final llego justo a tiempo y mi familia y yo estabamos MUY felices. Ese dia yo esperaba la llamada de las oficinas de la Iglesia, esperando alguna noticia. La llamada llego en la tarde. La familia Lozano, los encargados en entregar los paquetes, se la dieron a mi presidente de estaca (pte. Daniel Dominguez). Yo estaba gritando de alegria y saltando en mi casa. Mi madre fue a recoger el paquete. Esperamos a que llegara la noche y la abrieramos toda la familia completa y mi hermana Karen por skype dede BYU (I <3 you Karen). Cuando recien llego mi papi a la casa nos fuimos todos a la sala, colocamos en skype a mi hermana mayor Karen, hicimos una oracion y luego llego el momento. Abri mi llamamiento y para sorpresa de nosotras fui llamada a

Arizona Mesa Mission - Visitors Center

¡Todos estabamos muy emocionados por saber donde iba a servir los siguientes 18 meses! Lo divertido fue que muchas personas tapan con un papel la carta para no ver de un solo el lugar pero yo no queria hacerlo hahah. Primero mire donde iba y despues se los lei a mi familia. ¡Estaba muy feliz! Espero poder seguir preparandome cada dia para ser una misionera trabajadora, amorosa y fiel al Señor en todo momento. Este fue de los dias mas felices de mi vida, y ya mecomo seran de increibles los dias en mi mision. Lo increible es que este mismo año 2012 mi hermano Gerardo sale tambien a cumplir con una mision de tiempo completo :). No ha llegado la carpeta de Gerardito aun, sigue llenando los papeles pero ya pronto sabremos. ¡Estoy muy feliz! La decision de sevir una mision es lo mas increible y me siento feliz de ser obediente a mi Padre Celestial.

Yay! I got my mission call I'm so excited! 

Mi hermana Karen Valladares compartio el momento

con nosotros por skype. Ella esta en BYU provo

Con mis amados padres que los amo tanto

Gerardo Valladares y Ada de Valladares

Un fotografia del Centro de Visitantes en Mesa Arizona

Estatua de Jesucristo en el Visitors Center

Templo de Mesa Arizona