Welcome to part two of this week's podcast. Right now we come to one of the most often quoted

sections, section 25 about Emma Smith. And I'm excited, really excited here from Lisa

because this is like here area. What do we know about Emma and her childhood and her eventually

marrying Joseph? And what do you suppose these first few years of their marriage have been

like? We just love to hear what you know about this Lisa and how you can help us understand

this. Yeah, Emma is, Emma is someone that that I find that members of the church really want to know

about and want to know more about. She was just a little bit older than Joseph. She's born in 1804.

Her parents are Isaac and Elizabeth Hale. She grows up in pretty comfortable circumstances.

Her family is quite prosperous here in this Susquehanna Valley in the in the Harmony, Pennsylvania

area. Her father made a comfortable living in shipping meat and other merchandise down river

to Philadelphia and Baltimore. I think he was known as quite a prolific hunter. You know, big game

was was a way of procuring meat at the time. They lived in a fashionable frame home that was

sometimes called a mansion in the area and lived in fine circumstances. So Emma received a really

good education for her time and place. She liked to ride horses. She was good at canoeing apparently.

And she was very strong, very independent. She was a tall woman. I think about five foot nine

and very tall and strong and sturdy. Her family evidently was not particularly religious for some time

but she was baptized into the congregational church as a as a baby as a child. And then there were

you know, as was the case in so many places in the United States in the early 19th century. There

were schisms and splits and preachers who come through and religious revivals and so forth.

And at one point, Methodists circuit writers, the preachers, the Methodist preachers came

into the valley. And Emma as a fairly young child, I don't know the exact age, maybe about seven

years old. She finds religion so to speak. She becomes converted and she becomes a member of a class

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