Elder Jonah Dorrance's Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Mission: Week 7

Emma Hale Smith Family Home ("Hale Mansion")

Okay so this week's email is going to be a little bit different because typing what i do every day of the week is so long and i mean if you really want me to i will but it just takes forever. Anyway I think I am just gonna put some highlights from the week.

It's been kinda slow this week. Nothing really exciting happened this week except I got a cold Wednesday and Thursday which were two really fun days! Wednesday started out with some really light service for the second counselor in the bishopric who bought us chinese for lunch which was super nice of him. Lots of different stop bys of less actives until we drove up to Broomall PA to sleep at the assistants apartment because on Thursday we were heading up to Harmony PA to checkout the Priesthood restoration site which was awesome. While we were getting ready for bed on Wednesday night there was an elder that wanted to flip a knife around and see if he could catch it after flipping it but ended up just stabbing his hand. He went to the ER at like 10:30. haha that was like the most wild thing that has happened in a while.

On Thursday! we went up to the Priesthood restoration site which was amazing. It was so spiritual to see the grove and Joseph's and Emma's houses. I thought I knew pretty much everything about when Joseph was translating the plates. There was so much that went into that. I didn't know that when he got the plates he had to run 3 miles and fight off 3 guys. I can barely run one mile and i don't have to fight anyone or carry 50 pound gold plates. But yea, if anyone is ever close to Harmony PA for sure check the restoration site out. it is so spiritual. After that we headed back home and got back at around 9 PM. It was also so fun to see all of my MTC friends at the site.

On Friday the biggest thing we did was go to this referral we got. It was an old preacher who wouldn't let us talk at all haha he just kept going on about how bad sex was and pretty much told us about all of his past sins which was really scary. We left him with a pamphlet so he could read on his own. HAHA we will see how much he got from that when we visit him this week.

That's pretty much all i got this week. its been crazy this week it went by pretty fast. I suggest reading the book Saints,if you can. it tells about the history of the church but not informational it tells it as a story. I have been reading it and it is so cool to see the history of the church.

That's all!

Love you very much

-Elder Dorrance