The Jackson Howell Podcast

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Enjoy some story time with Uncle Andrew about Joseph Smith receiving the Gold plates between September 22 1823 to September 22 1827.  What was the reason for not letting Joseph take the plates the 1st time, the 2nd time, or even the 3rd time.  Why did it take 4 years before he was allowed to take the...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Enjoy story time with Uncle Andrew.  Joseph Smith Sr. was a visionary man.  He experienced many dreams throughout his life.  He specifically went to his son Joseph jr. one day seeking to understand these dreams.  He wanted to understand what these dreams meant and what he should do with them.  In resp...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This week we discuss the the many difficulties that Joseph Smith faced in the early stages of translating the gold plates delivered to him by Moroni.  Emma Smith served as Joseph's Scribe early on.  Martin Harris, having desires to be a part of God's work also assisted as Joseph's scrib...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! After Joseph Smiths Vision of God the Father and Jesus Christ The Son, he spent the next 3 years being much of a normal teenage boy.  Although he had attracted some attention good and bad, he was still able to leave a mostly normal life.  All of that would soon change as he sought God in prayer one ev...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! This Week we discuss the beginnings of Joseph Smith’s History as he recorded in the year 1838 after years of relentless persecution, attacks on his character, and repeated attempts to prove him a false or fallen prophet.   We discuss the background of the Smith’s moving to Palmyra and the “Great Awake...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! We give the background to section 1.  We discuss how the Doctrine & Covenants Preface went from being uninspired words derived from scholars and educated me to another inspired revelation to his humble prophet.  Section 1 is the beginning of the Doctrine & Covenants, although not chronological...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us as we break down the top 5 ways to make the most of your Doctrine and Covenants Come Follow Me Studies in 2021.  We read through the first few sections of the come follow me manual and took out what we thought were the top 5.  Obviously including prayer and following the spirit are givens.  Bu...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us as we close out 2020 with our 50th episode, also our Christmas episode.  We start out by discussing how the Book of Mormon has strengthened our testimony in The Savior.  We share Christmas stories, traditions, and even clarify what's not an acceptable Christmas gift, LOL.  We also name so...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! In the final chapter of The Book of Mormon, Moroni puts a beautiful wrap on the truths found within the Book of Mormon and the basic doctrine of salvation as it pertains to the Grace of Jesus Christ.  Moroni exhorts us to pray with a sincere heart and real intent as we ask God if these things are &quo...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Moroni shares with us words from his Father Mormon.  One letter addresses the members of the church and the other two letters, Mormon speaks directly to Moroni.  Join us as we discuss the words of a wise father to his son. Support the show Thanks for listening!  Keep on Striving! Don't Forget to...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Join us as we begin the last book of The Book of Mormon.  Moroni had not expected to write anything else down after abridging The Book of Ether, but The Lord had other plans.  He writes down instructions for members of the church as it pertains to ordinances such as baptism, sacrament, confirmation, a...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! We cover one of the most commonly used chapters in the Book of Mormon when discussing faith.  Moroni gives many examples of faith.  Moroni admits that he feels weak in his writing but The Lord explains that he will make weak things become strong and that only fools will mock.   The power cycle continu...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The brother of Jared comes down from the Mountain and places the 16 stones in the 8 barges.  They have light to see.  They travel across the many waters being directed by the Lord, literally.  They have no way to steer but they arrive to the promised land as the Lord said they would.  Jared and his br...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! What can we learn from Jaredites?  As Andrew puts it, it's almost a mini Book of Mormon in that the people follow a similar path in their journey, civilization, faith, and final destruction.   Moroni abridges the 24 plates that were found hundreds of years earlier by the people of Limhi in the da...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Did you know that Moroni saw our day?  Did you know that he knew of our doings?  That's right!! He did.   Before handing the plates over to his son Moroni, Mormon, takes the opportunity to write to the future generations, the future Lamanites.  He pleads with them to accept the gospel of Jesus Ch...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The Book of Mormon opens as Ammaron comes to the young Mormon, at only ten years of age, and instructs him concerning the record of his people. Mormon is told to go when he is twenty-four years of age to the place where the plates were hidden, and record the history of good people that he had observed...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! As the Savior’s disciples began establishing His Church throughout the land, a question arose that, to some, might seem like a minor point... What should be the name of the Church? Jesus establishes that His Church should be called by HIS name.  We learn from this the significance of each word in the...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Jesus provides bread and wine miraculously and again administers the sacrament to the people.  He teaches the people that they are a remnant of the house of Israel, and that He is the one of which Moses and all the prophets have testified.  Christ teaches the people about the nation that would be esta...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode!      Jesus had just spent the day ministering in the land of Bountiful, teaching His gospel, giving the people a chance to see and feel the marks in His resurrected body, and testifying that He was the promised Savior. And now it was time for Him to leave. He needed to return to His Father, and He kne...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! We speak with Kevin Washington to gain his perspective on race relations in America and in the church.  He provides some personal experiences as well as things he has seen take place as it pertains to race.  He is a man of The Lord.  He follows the spirit and trusts his feelings.  He hopes that people...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Christ visits the people in the ancient Americas.  He gives authority to 12 disciples to baptize.  He teaches them the order of baptism.  He gives sermons to them similar to what is recorded in the New Testament, Mathew chapters 6 - 8.  He gives them the "Be-attitudes".  He commands them to...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! Jesus visits the “other sheep” that He spoke of in John 10:16!!! Chapter 8 opens with earthquakes, fires, great storms, three days of total darkness, and the destruction of many cities that heralded Christ’s crucifixion and the completion of the atonement. Those who survive bemoan their fate The darkn...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! The Christmas Story, From the view of the Nephites and Lamanites! As the signs of the coming of Son of God approach, the unbelievers threaten to put to death the believers if the signs don't come to pass on a certain day.  Nephi prays to God asking when.  He is comforted as the Lord tells him it...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! “Glad tidings of great joy!”       This week we discuss Samuel the Lamanite prophesying to the Nephites!!! We learn how the Lord’s servants speak and act according to His direction.  Samuel proves himself to be a true prophet of God through his faith, his obedience, and his trust in the Lord. His prop...

Thank you For Listening. Click here to Send us a comment if you have any thoughts on the episode! “Remember the Lord” We begin this week in the sixty and ninth year of the reign of the judges..      We see that prophets communicate the will of God to the world... Nephi is rejected in the north and returns to Zarahemla. He prays upon his garden tower, he testifies of Christ just as all of God’s pro...