not much happened this week. or i cant remember what happened...

i hit 11 months yesterday!

we had zone conf and it was awesome.  i loved it!

we went to the mormon battalion for hermana corona's "graduation"!

life isnt that bad! im loving the mission

i apologize this is short. i left my journal at home and i havent been writing in it...i choose to read my scriptures and the liahona instead sometimes...sorry!

the church is true and the gospel changes lives. love you!

we had a competition to chug the apricot juice because we cant have juice in the car. i think i won.

im so red all the time. 

just yesterday we went looking for less actives. this is carlos in the pink and lorenzo in the blue they are members!

July 10, 2017

i forgot to grab my journal today. it helps me remember what happened this week. but i have a crazy story so stay in tuned.

its been pretty toasty lately. lots of sweat. but not so much sunburns. knock on wood.

so last tuesday for the forth of july, we had to be home or in a church by 6:30. so we went to a church with our zone. we had a devotional and then we played some games. weve been playing a lot of speed/knock out/ whateveryouwanttocallit. i dont have much arm strength to shoot like normal bball players so i just chuck it. it goes towards the square. sometimes i actually make it. good fun.

we had an awesome miracle happen on wednesday. we found a teaching record for this one guy and his less active girlfriend (espovio) and it had been 6 years from contact. and so we drove over there and we met the less active "espovia" (when they call each other their husband or wife but they are actually still dating and living together for forever) and she was saying she was just thinking about how she needs to go back to church and then we showed up! she told her mother in law "maybe its a sign" when she saw us. im excited to work with her. she has a solid testimony of the church.

then we had a lesson with pancho our investigator. probably going to drop him. but he went to soccer so we were able to play! yay! more sweating! i stayed in a little square almost the whole time. they were pretty good and they guy in the yellow jersey would kick it so hard it could take someone's head off! but it was fun. i got competitive.

ok here comes the crazy story. so we went to visit some potentials and afterwards right  before dinner, we made some phone calls. it all of a sudden starts raining so i try to take some cute rain picutres. they didnt turn out good. and while hna corona is on the phone i see this white truck on the other side of the street. theres a shirtless man taking stuff out of the bed of the truck and a girl with crazy blonde hair walking around him. it looked like she was laughing. the guys gets in the truck and starts throwing books and papers out towards the lady she reaches in for stuff and then water starts flying and they start fighting and throwing stuff. all of a sudden he grabs her and drags her into the car and starts beating her! i tried telling hermana corona but words wouldnt come out. i open the car door and start yelling at him to stop. there was another woman in the apartments across the street yelling too. he pushes her out of the car and he peels out and drives away. we run over to her to see if shes okay. she has blood running out of her mouth and huge scratches under her arm. she smelled of beer and she was shaking and crying in shock. we end up calling her dad to come pick her up. she didnt let us call the police. she got our names and numbers down so when she did call them she would have witnesses. we havent got a call. im still safe. the guy didnt see us. dont worry too much. im just glad we were there to help her out and that she is okay. i still want to call her dad to see if she is okay.

this week went pretty fast! and the past 3 weeks we've had a goal for every companionship in our zone to hand out 15 BoM's. or a total of 165. and we did it! we only handed out 11 but we made the goal and so we are going to go celebrate now! yay!

go read the BoM. President Thomas S. Monson said so.

stay fresh friends. 

Fourth of July. I wore red and white and ate blue chips.

Moments before the accident.

the author had my name. 

our district

busy for dayzzz!

my beloved friends and family. i love you.

we went to the temple this week! its crazy to think that that was this week. its gone by so fast!

poco a poco.

we went to this less active's house the other day with a member and we totally got her to crack. she finally let us in! only because the member was with us and he was standing at the peep hole...but the comp shared a scripture about the atonement and she started crying and accepted to come to church and to have her 2 year old baby blessed. she was the relief society president before. so she came to church yesterday and her baby was blessed and she was smiling and then we invited her to a branch family home evening and she replied back: thank you...for everything. ah! this branch is poppin! no but its really been going good. i love this little branch. im to the point where ive been here long enough to now get involved in these people's lives and i feel im more comfortable with my Spanish so i can understand and add my humor a little bit with them. i love them.

the other day we helped this lady move. she's not investigating the church or anything but she got in contact with the elders because she needed help moving. and so we took some time to help her move! it was awesome. we packed that uhaul like its never been packed before. i was pretty proud. my biceps were actually quite sore. i love it. but at the end she was crying out of appreciation, i invited her to church with the English elders. always leave them with an invitation.

miracle/ tender mercy: 

so our missionary fund was restocked in our credit cards at the beginning of the month of july. we went out to eat because a member was too packed with work. we went to this cool Italian place and i had a plate with angel hair. reminded me of something my mom has made. it was super good. and then i was waiting for the lady to come bring us our checks but then she said that someone had already taken care of it! (should have asked for desert...jokes jokes:) and then a man walked up to us and asked us how we were and told us he was in the English ward and that he saw us when he walked in! he paid for us! such a sweet guy. saved some mission money.

these people love to talk and so we sit there and listen a lot. and then they always ask us if we are tired. no we are just listening! look alive harker! but its hard. its hot and i do get tired but thats part of life.

keep on keeping on people. read the Book of Mormon. please. it will change your life. but dont be scared. its in a good way. i love you! theres so much more i want to share but not enough time to do it!

 will you come along with me on a journey and laugh with me? lets goo

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i did another face mask and so i took lots of funny pictures.

                          there's this big tree outside our church and i love it. 

June 19, 2017

i apologize for last week. my computer was stupid. i was using internet explorer in a library on a 200 year old laptop and it froze and it took forever to load again. i was mightily frustrated last week. but you know what? its all in the past.

this week, well it was something else. so many things happened. i think.

we had a mission miracles day where we prayed for every companionship in our mission to see and experience miracles in their area and it was soo cool! we also have a goal of handing out 15 Book of Mormons...or Books of Mormon...i dont know. but 15 in 3weeks for each companionship in our zone and this last week we handed out three starting in the middle of the week. you could say we are killing it.

part of our miracles this last week was contacting a girl in the marines. but shes english so we had to give her to the english missionaries. but then we met her again the next day! and talked to her more about the gospel and she was about to light another cigarette but we told her to not. and she didnt. so score.

oh and then in 100 degree sun beating down weather day we were walking and this drunk guy comes up to us from around a hedge and the first thing that comes out of his mouth when he sees me is "youre so beautiful" is his drunken slurred speech. and then he uses the f word every three words. its interesting how that word can be used as a noun, adjective, adverb, filler word, preposition. and then whenever he stopped he told me again that i was pretty and asked if my eyes were green. and then after some time he was saying goodbye and took my hand and elbow and kissed the top of my hand. such an interesting interaction. one for the books.

i studied in depth what it means to take upon ourselves the name of Christ this morning. it was awesome. i love my personal studies. it means that we are to willingly represent Him and serve Him and obey His commandments continually until the end. and like i felt like i knew that before but it was just cool to know how to answer that question and click the refresh button in my memory. just blow off the dust from the filing cabinet of files of memories.

the mission is difficult and awesome. i love it. its hard but there is no where id rather be. this is my time to be completely on the Lord's time. you only got one shot, do not miss your chance -eminem

i love you guys! lifes what you make it. so lets make it rock. -hannah montana 

bye!

still working on being better with pictures. patience is a virtue. 

we did a face mask out of glue and charcoal. ripped off all my precious baby hairs from my face

miracle day just walking

June 12, 2017

first week in fallbrook has been awesome. like every transfer its something to get used to again but everything is going great! my only complaints is the water in the new apartment. it smells and tastes weird. and the toilet takes a couple flushes to flush everything down...if yanno what I mean...but everything is great. my new companion Hermana Corona is awesome. im gonna be freakin pro by the end of this mission with speakin the Spanish. nah just kidding but I am still learning a lot. but this area is so cute. im super excited to work with it. we have a cute little branch of a few families. its amazing. its so personal haha and the for sacrament meeting, no one plays the piano, so they play it all the app. now I know why my parents put me in piano. and I also recall them saying: "what if youre the only one that can play the piano on your mission?" well back then I didn't know if I was even going to serve a mission. so many regrets. but I mean if they are ok with singing Sweet Hour of Prayer and Choose the Right every single sunday then I can play..? probably not. I remember getting booed off stage in young womans from playing those songs too much. I thought I was so cool. never again.

hey I FINISHED THE BOOK OF MORMON YESTERDAY!!! AAAHHHH!!!!!  I feel like I can do anything now. it was so cool. I love the Book of Mormon. I know that it is the word of God and that it was written for our day. I found a lot of stuff out and learned a bunch ive never known before. I loved it. now im going to start reading it in Spanish. THE CHURCH IS TRUE!

having fun workin hard. mission life is awesome. love talking to people and changing their lives in the midst of me changing mine. I love being a missionary. I love the Book of Mormon. i love the spirit. i love my friends and i love my family.

like i always say: have a wonderful week everybody:) now go and read the Book of Mormon.

love, Hermana kiara harker

Monday, June 4, 2017

IM GETTING TRANSFERRED!!

i am moving to Fallbrook tomorrow! i will be half training another hermana! im super excited and super nervous! but its going to be awesome. im pumped.

so we went to the mormon battalion this week! super educated had some fun. 

nothing too crazy this week. just moving to another area. as always eating so much freaking food. whachagonnado?

i feel bad because i have nothing interesting to say. 

i am now in Mormon in the Book of Mormon. we are passing records right now. barrier breaking. 

but i have a huge testimony of the Book of Mormon and of this gospel. it has completely changed my life. and i am so grateful for it. i know ive said this a million times and ill say it another million times but i dont want to go back to the person i was before. i didnt realize how easy it was to be happy. you just keep the commandments and do your best. the four of us (the hermanas) were talking the other day and its funny because if you read the scriptures then God will bless you with more of a desire to read them. and then He will bless you. It really is easy to be happy. do what God tells you to do and He will make you happy and bless you. its like he has a hand full of confetti and he is waiting to shower you with it. its constantly hanging over our heads. and so when we obey, try our best, and keep our heads up, he will continually shower us with confetti (blessings). its so easy, and it might sound too good to be true. and so thats when the adversary comes in and kicks you down. but dont let him! you have more power of him! because you are blessed with a body. so you can actually kick him in the face. you got this! keep fighting! and you will be blessed. in God's timing of course.:)

i love you guys so much! youre all constantly in my prayers!

make this week a week to remember!

love, Hermana Kiara Harker

pictures:   but i apologize because i have too many oops!:) i cant fit them all on here

i had a giant waffle and ate it all. that is whip cream not butter. just so you know.

i have a bunch of pictures with members:)

May 30, 2017

dear friends and family,

funniest thing happened the other day!

backstory: we were at the Anastacio's house and the little kids Nicol and Ivan were wearing little jerseys for a soccer team Chivas. they were so cute and in the past they have been super shy and don't come out to see us and they run away. but lately they have been coming out and talking to us (in spanish. it is so stinking cute) and after we stood up from saying the last prayer we were getting ready to leave, and I knelt down with my arms open for the little girl Nicol to give me a hug. I could see she was thinking about it, and then she just ran and jumped into my arms and gave me a big hug. that struck me. straight to the core. I freakinglove kids. and then Ivan kinda did the same he just ran and then stopped and stood there like a plank of wood while I gave him a hug.; haha so funny! and heres the really funny  part: the other day we were riding bikes. we had just left the apartment and I saw a guy walking with a jersey for chivas and thinking about the little kids I say: "ya chivas! chivas!" as I pass by. not really expecting a response, he yells back: "aye! I love you baby!" in a very slured and drunk voice. "aye I lo you baby!" and all I said was: "op!" and then it was a red light and I had to stop and I was panicking thinking he was going to come up behind me and try to talk to me more or something but I couldn't stop laughing! hahaha so funny!! I love these people and the funny things they do. lightens the mood. keeps things interesting.

we signed up at a nursing home to volunteer service. kinda want to do that at home too. I want to host bingo dangit! but its only on Monday afternoons and that's p day. one day I will call out bingo numbers like on Hotel Transylvania.

also the lady that gave us popsicles the other week!  we went by in our service clothes and cleaning supplies to offer her service in reply for her kindness. but she wouldn't let us! she said we were so nice and sweet and she would not let us clean her house. he reminds me of Brenda Speirs. I love her. so nice. but she let us come in and we talked a little about religion which she said she didn't want to do last time. so we are opening doors and planting seeds. sadly she is white and English but she says she still wants to be friends. winning.

last night at noche de hogar (family home evening) at bishop's house. at the end, someone brings out a guitar and they start playing and people sing and we have such a great time. I love these people. they make everything fun.

I love the Book of Mormon.

also I brought out something my dad taught me and I made rice crispy treats. these people didn't know what they were. but I made them for desert yesterday for dinner. they were a hit. thank you dad.

welp I love you guys so much. youre all the bomb.com.  you make my life brighter. 

pictures:

still fit in my jeans




helmet chin and the clouds

this one is better

us

duck face