Hi, I'm Jewell.

I'm an Army wife. I am an Apache...and I am a Mormon.

About Me

I am an Apache, from the San Carlos Apache Tribe. My husband and I were married in the Mesa Az Temple in 2002.
I love photography, I love my family, and as a family we love traveling.

Why I am a Mormon

A week before 17th birthday, my brother passed on in a fatal car accident. I was left feeling numb, empty, and filled with grief. I struggled with my emotions and beliefs, and inevitably came to the realization that I needed a firm religious foundation in my life. I needed to build my faith... But before I could do that, I needed the religious structure...

So I researched various religions, and it came down to two specific denominations. After meeting with the missionaries, I knew this was the foundation that I had been seeking. I found peace and solace in the gospel.

Personal Stories

How has the Holy Ghost helped you?

The Holy Ghost has brought comfort and guideance into my life.

Please explain the part prayer plays in your life?

Prayer has always played a significant role in my life. I wasn't raised in a specific denomination; I didn't attend a specific church growing up, but my parent's did stress the importance of prayer to me. Prayer helped me get through many of the hard times in my life. Prayer has strengthen my relationship with my Heavenly father, it has increased my faith, it has strengthened me, and it has given me hope many times in my life. Prayer is vital to me.

How I live my faith

We have PCS'd to a new state, so we are in the process of getting our records transferred, and all of that good stuff. But as an Army wife, I must say that I am impressed with the church's recognition of the LDS Military families! We love that there are military wards!

What is faith?

Jewell. answered...

Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Heberews 11:1

Faith is like the wind. You can't see it, but you feel it, and you know it's there....
Zen answered...

Of all the definitions of faith I have read or heard, I add the simplest and most complete to me, which is the Love of Christ. I cannot think of a better way to describe faith. Love of Christ is the substance of hope in something evident we can not see with earthly eyes. It is the faith in Christ or the love of Christ that enabled Able to make a more perfect sacrifice (Hebrews 11:4). That love is why we believe in Christ, it is why we have grace, it is why we have works, it is why we have belief, it is why we have hope, it is why we have charity, it is the very essence of faith, and faith is the very essence of the Love of Christ

Perfect knowledge is worthless without faith. For instance, most of us have perfect knowledge that applying a pointed pencil to paper will cause a mark. That knowledge will not make a mark if we do not exercise the elements of faith called works (picking up the pencil, applying it to the paper, and making a mark), belief (that doing so will make a mark), and hope (that it actually will make a mark). It is my desire that you would exercise works to find out about Christ and study Him, that you would believe on His words and His life and His sacrifice, and that you would hope that He would have an effect in your life. If you exercise this faith, you will truly come unto Him.

Why was a Restoration of the Gospel needed? Haven’t we always had the Bible?

Joshua answered...

The Restoration is needed because of the Apostasy. The apostasy is a time foretold of by the prophet in the Bible Amos. In Amos 8:11-12

" Behold, the days come, saith the Lord God, that I will send a famine in the land, not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water, but of hearing the words of the Lord:
And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it."

Amos tells us that there will be a time when the gospel, or "the word of the Lord" will be lost. That time came when Jesus Christ and the Apostles were killed. Even though we still had the bible, there were no prophets or apostles to keep the gospel pure and true. Man was left with their own interpretation of the Bible. As we all know, there are thousands of christian churches all based on the bible, BUT all teach different doctrines. When Christ was on the earth He did not set up thousands of different churches so that there was something different for everyone. He had one church. His church. The prophet Peter tells us that there will be a restitution or a restoration of the gospel, in Acts 3:21

" Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began."

In short, the gospel was lost during the Apostasy and the Restoration brought it back. So, now we have the same gospel that Christ set up when he was on the earth. :)