Hello my friends, my friends. Welcome to another episode of follow him. My name's

Hank Smith. I'm your host. I'm here with my humble in heart. Co-host John by the way and

our guest this week Dr Barbara Morgan Gardner.

John I know you know the book of Jacob we're switching from first second if I

now Jacob what are we looking forward to today?

When I think in terms of the storyline we've got traveling through this empty corridor,

Nephi breaks his bow, they're starving probably.

Jacob is taking over the leadership of the church and now he has to address

prosperity and searching gold and silver and having stuff which is very

interesting just to watch how are you going to handle that and how do we handle that today?

That's a great comment John they've swung the pendulum from poverty almost now to riches

like I said we have Dr Barbara Morgan Gardner with us. What are we looking forward to today?

Jacob one through four. Oh there's so much good in here Hank and thank you for having

me on the show. I love that Jacob is the younger half of the family. We don't know for sure if

Sam has passed away and Lehman and Lemiele but we know that Nephi is going to pass

away during this time. We know that he's lost his parents. He's the younger half.

He wasn't living in Jerusalem. He wasn't experienced with the richness and the ways of Jerusalem.

But he has drawn close to the Lord. He's received these blessings and now he's being called to be in a very strong and important leadership position and he's taking the role of the

Prophet and you're just seeing this growth of this young boy that was born in the wilderness and now he's the

prophet of God trying to bring his people to

Christ just like he saw his brother do and his father do. In a way it's very much our

world today as a prophet becomes a prophet. President Nelson and all the sudden

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