First Thursday of the month designated for fasting and prayer (later changed to first Sunday by Wilford).
7th We walked to Clithero then to Chatburn
I walked through the street that the Apostle
Heber Kimball walked through with his hat off
& blessed the place I felt the spirit of God rest
upon me while walking over the same road
I called upon Br Wm Hall Sister Hall was
beaking oat cake crack & rattle I flung some
& done well. I then called upon Br John
Chatburn he showed me Jacobs Staff that
grew in his garden it removed from garden
to garden it seldom stayed more than two
years in a place. I called upon Sister Elizabet
Parkinson the lodging place of the Saints she
weaves 30 yards of cotton cloth per day with
a hand loom at 1/2 per 30 yards. We next
went to Downham called upon Father
Richard Smithies the noted fisherman
we returned to Chatburn & spent the night 7 miles
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