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The Gifts of God

  This is a season when I am thinking about gifts a LOT.  Gifts from God: wonderful! Don’t need batteries, don't need to drive to UPS in Springville to return it, don't have to assemble it with cryptic IKEA instructions! 1. Family  Intro to ours, Jon and I are both 30. We first met as missionaries in Japan, and we got married in 2017 when we were not missionaries in Japan. We now have three awesome kids! They are truly our most cherished gift. S is 6, he has the gift of testimony and likes to bear it. E is 3, she has the gift of creativity and dance. W is 9 months old, he has the gift of joy because he smiles at everyone. Families are not perfect, but the love we can feel as parents for children testifies to me of God's love for us. 2. Talents  Another truly remarkable gift from God is that we each have talents given to us. As we’re created in His image, our talents are things that He is good at, that he passed on to us. Only to name a few, we are blessed ...