About Me

         

   My name is Jana Hardy and I am just your basic white girl. I am about as average as they come. But lets start at the beginning. I was born in Stuttgart, Germany. My dad was in the military and was born on an army base so I can still run for president. Unfortunately, I do not have duel citizenship, thanks for asking though. 

    I am the third child in my family. I have two older sisters with one younger sister and a younger brother. My parents have been happily married for almost 30 years. 

    With my siblings, all of our names start with the letter 'J'. Jacki is the oldest. She has been living in Oregon for the last 4 years and is planning on marrying her girlfriend, Kailyn, in April this year. Joselyn is the next oldest sister. She has been married to her husband, Jacob, for 6 years and they have 2 girls with a little boy joining them in February. Jenni is my younger sister who is currently on a mission serving in the Winnipeg, Canada mission. She will be home in March and I am so excited to see her again. My little brother Jake is a junior in high school and just recently got a job at Crumble Cookie. 

    As a kid, living in Germany, I was only 4 when we left so honestly I dont remember anything about being there. We moved to Georgia after Germany and we were there for two years. I do remember that place and lots of fun I had there. After Georgia we were off to Tennessee. I remember making lots of friends there and was old enough at the time to start going to elementary school. 

   I remember watching a movie we rented from Blockbuster called Tremors. It was about these giant monsters that lived in the desert and came out of the ground to consume anything and everything they could. As a 7 year old, it was one of the most terrifying movies I had ever seen. I told my dad, “I am never going to live in the desert.” That is when he proceeded to tell me that we were moving and we were going to be in a desert. An unbearably hot place way across the United States that we drove to called Arizona.

   I have lived in Arizona for the last 15 years of my life. When we first got to Arizona, we lived in a rental house while our actual house was being built. We biked to school and it was really nice to live so close to the elementary. Once we moved into our finished house, I started going to a different school therefore I was forced to make new friends. We have been in that same house for the last 13 years. I absolutely love that house. It just screams ‘home’ to me.

   When we first moved in to that house there was a cornfield behind our house and a cow farm on the next street over. Now there is a neighborhood behind us plus a little shopping center. The Gilbert Temple was also built on the same block as our house which makes me so very happy.  

   I graduated high school from Higley High which is about 5 minutes from my house. My two older sisters graduated from there as well as my younger sister and probably my younger brother will too.

   I did cosmetology school while attending high school and was able to get my haircutting license. By doing that I was able to work right out of high school at a few different salons, having very different experiences at each.

   The first salon I was at was super fancy. Very high class and lavish. Then I moved to a salon closer to home that was so ghetto, the lady got kicked out of the building for failing to pay for rent and utilities so often. She still owes me money. I ended up getting an assisting job at a pretty ritzy salon in the local mall and also worked as a stylist for a franchise salon chain.

   I had only been working for about 7 or 8 months before I got the impression to serve a mission. I was called to serve in the Minnesota Minneapolis Mission. It was hard and it was cold. But it was the best thing for me. God knew I needed to grow closer to Him.

   After my mission, I felt like going to school would be a good option for me. I started attending BYUI in the fall of 2019. While here, I have learned a lot and have made lots of friends. It has been a mostly good experience. COVID kind of wrecked it last year.