Joseph Ball serves a mission in the East.
Wilford Woodruff, Letter to Joseph Smith, March 9, 1838, Elders Journal (July 1838): 35, The Joseph Smith Papers website, accessed August 11, 2021
The Lord has worked with me during the winter. Elder Joseph T. Ball has been with me for a number of weeks past upon the Islands. There is rising of 40 members in the church on these islands, and they are strong in the faith.