Transfers!

Hello Everyone! Hope all is well! So yes the news is out, and I have no idea about the Instagram pictures but hope they were good! They were the greatest family, and I can't wait to visit them after the mission. 

So I have been transferred out into the high desert. I am in Adelanto still biking but the area is small. I live in a mission house with the zone leaders who have a truck and are our ward mates. My new comp. is Elder Hauter. Everyone says Adelanto is one of the promise lands to go to so I am excited to be here.

So my last week with Elder Pritchard was fun! The Stake Pioneer activity was a blast and we got to play volleyball which was fun.

The mission is such a blast. I have been so happy and have felt so much comfort in being here.

We went over to a home, and the member was sad because his aunt was on vacation and had one of her kidneys fail, and it is $20,000 to medivac her back to California and he had been praying for something and then we showed up. Obviously we don't have $20,000 but he was saying, "the sense of peace he gets when we are there. He knows and can feel Heavenly Fathers presence when we come." I just thought how awesome it is to be able to have the spirit to bring to people if they let us. And sadly sometimes I take it for grant it.

Love you Guys! And Elder Packham I will talk to you next week just right now we are running short on time!

Miss you all!


Elder Harris


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Elder Jorvik Ty Harris
Rancho Cucamonga, California

Buenos Dias Mi Familia!

Buenos Dias Mi Familia!
(I have no idea if that is correct haha sorry Elder Packham hahaha)

This week has been interesting. Nothing but scorching hot, so hot in fact the cajon pass which is the 15 that you take to get out into the desert. We even got a warning for a dust storm! and then the past two days it has been raining with flash flood warnings!!! So beautiful except for the fact it is now super humid. One of our members was saying this is usually weather you see before an earthquake, but we'll see. It has been super crazy weather though. I think Heavenly Father is mad about the passing of the new law and is giving us a piece of His mind haha.

So life has been good. This is the start of week 6, so this Saturday we will see if I get transferred or not. So this week it felt like we accomplished nothing until I started to fill out our weekly progress report before missionary correlation meeting and saw how many families we went to go see and it was pretty impressive.

Sounds like everyone is busy this summer! Can't believe summer is almost over though... Sorry to bring that up Halley hahaha.

My shoulder is doing just fine!

Miss you all and hope you have a good and safe week!

Love you!
Elder Harris--

Elder Jorvik Ty Harris
Rancho Cucamonga, California

In the Second Coming, Southern California is the first to go...... (hahahaha)

This missionary work is hard.

This past week I pleaded with the Lord like none other, and I got reassurance that He understands my hard work. But it truly is the hardest thing to face. I had this incredible study but I forgot my study journal so I don't remember some of it, but I want to share it with you! Next week.

Also cool story, When I was with Elder Plymell I read the talk from President Eyring entitled "Mountains to Climb" and I prayed for a lesson of patience. Well I got it. My bike crash was still bothering me this past week, and the night I called Sister Hobbs I popped my shoulder back in. And now I have been told I bruised a bone which there is nothing I can do but ice and apply heat at nights. It takes 6 weeks to heal than I can do exercise that will strengthen my shoulder. But no one has time to wait. I think that day I got the news I went and moved a few couches.. hahaha Missionary work and service waits for nothing! haha but patience is a virtue I must learn. The Lord is in my life. I feel Him everyday. I realized in my prayers I just need to be straight up with Him. If I am feeling miserable I just tell Him I feel miserable. I think He appreciates that a lot more than the normal "thank the for this day...."

Well that wraps my week up! Also President Palmer emailed me this week! Can I just say I have the best Stake President ever, he is a boss.

Thank you for the words of encouragement!

ohhh another cool story than I give you permission to move on with the day!:)

So in zone meeting this past week we were trying to set a baptismal goal for this next 6 months of the year, and somehow I get elected to pray for us all to receive inspiration. I have never been answered from a prayer as quick as I did in that prayer. I got it in the middle of the prayer I wanted to stop the prayer and just tell the zone leaders what the number was, but don't worry I finished my prayer and told them. Then other missionaries started speaking up saying the same number I said. The Lord is so good!

The power of prayer is so real and I am saddened seeing people walk around totally oblivious to this power which is available to everyone.


Have a great week!

“Work without vision is drudgery. Vision without work is dreaming. Work plus vision-this is destiny.”
― Gordon B. Hinckley
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Elder Jorvik Ty Harris
Rancho Cucamonga, California

Combating Satan's Influences

Hey - thank you for the pictures lol.  Reminds me that I actually have a family lol. And that is so awesome to hear about Aunt Kim!!!

 

I am reading in the war chapters in Alma, and I notice both the Lamanites and Nephites make fortifications and preparations for war. But as you read Alma chapter 55, Moroni sets up a plan to give wine to the Lamanites and then take the city without bloodshed. The next morning the Lamanites awoke and had no idea what was going on.

 

So what does that do with us?

 

Well a couple things stick out.

1.) We all have weaknesses 

- That is why we continue to read our scriptures and pray for strength. We are at war with the adversary every day. He watches us. He knows our weaknesses, our insecurities, our strengths. 

And much like Moroni knowing the city of Gid was highly fortified. He needed a new plan of attack, so he went for the Lamanites weakness.

 

2.) Outside influences 

-It is amazing to me that the Lamanite army that was stationed in the city of Gid, ALL were in a drunken state. I bet some of them knew that drinking wine and getting drunk was a bad idea especially when the Nephite army was right at the borders.

-Peer pressure is real, and is one of Satan's tools to get us in a snare.

 

So what can we do to combat Satan's influences?

We must prepare for our war- read scriptures, go to church, temple attendance

 Make Fortifications- Strengthen testimony and deepen our conversion.

Always remember the grace of the Lord can strengthen us in times of need. Through the beauty of the gospel all our weaknesses can be made strong.

 

Our influences that we have around us is solely up to us!

 

We can not walk uprightly before God while holding hands with Satan.

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Love ya! 

Elder Harris

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Sleep Deprivation

Hey everyone! sorry for the lack of individual emails but I am falling asleep while writing this so it will be a quick e-mail.
 
So this week it has been humid and 100 degrees staying cool is a joke haha but we are staying hydrated while we bike our 15+ miles a day:) The sad thing about the sun you don't really how much it takes out of you until you get home and fall asleep and the struggle to get up at 6:30 is so real. So Elder Pritchard and I are physically exhausted right now. But I think the Lord is blessing us for our diligence for we have found another new investigator. His name is XXX and his life is a straight mess right now, but we are here to help that change..... hopefully!

 

I can't believe it is almost July already! Super crazy! Time is flying by so fast! Being a missionary is super awesome and I don't want to be anything else for the rest of my life.. Might as well due to the Supreme Court ruling! The Lord is coming soon! LOL.

 

Sorry the email is short, and boring but that is a quick update on my week. 

A miracle happened this week though! So last week we fasted with the Muslim community for rain in this drought and a couple days it sprinkled ever so slightly but it was enough confirmation that Heavenly Father is watching over us. Probably why I haven't fallen over dead yet hahaha. 

 

Love you guys! We get to do a training this week, so wish us luck! Be safe, and look for missionary opportunities including service!

Elder Harris

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Elder Jorvik Ty Harris

Rancho Cucamonga, California