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Dear Elder Lutze,

We hope this email finds you well and that you’ve had a great week! We’ve been busy this week with pretzels, work, and finishing up for Christmas. It snuck up on us quick! I think we’re ready! 

We enjoyed an ornament making day yesterday with the Millers. Everyone was very creative. We made clothes pin representations of ourselves for the dinner table and gnomes for the tree! We also ate an entire container of pretzels!

As we celebrate Christmas and our Savior, Jesus Christ, I want you to know how much I love Him. I also want to talk about a different gift today. – spiritual gifts!

D&C 46:8 

Wherefore, beware lest ye are deceived; and that ye may not be deceived seek ye earnestly the best gifts, always remembering for what they are given;

Spiritual gifts are given so we will not be deceived. We are taught to seek them, so just like Wiseman seek Christ, we should also seek spiritual gifts.

Spiritual Gifts President George Q. Cannon (1827–1901) of the First Presidency explained: “If any of us are imperfect, it is our duty to pray for the gift that will make us perfect. Have I imperfections? I am full of them. What is my duty? To pray to God to give me the gifts that will correct these imperfections. If I am an angry man, it is my duty to pray for charity, which suffereth long and is kind. Am I an envious man? It is my duty to seek for charity, which envieth not. So with all the gifts of the Gospel. They are intended for this purpose. No man ought to say, ‘Oh, I cannot help this; it is my nature.’ He is not justified in it, for the reason that God has promised to give strength to correct these things, and to give gifts that will eradicate them. If a man lack wisdom, it is his duty to ask God for wisdom. The same with everything else. That is the design of God concerning His Church. He wants His Saints to be perfected in the truth. For this purpose He gives these gifts, and bestows them upon those who seek after them, in order that they may be a perfect people upon the face of the earth, notwithstanding their many weaknesses, because God has promised to give the gifts that are necessary for their perfection” (“Discourse by President George Q. Cannon,” Millennial Star, Apr. 23, 1894, 260–61). 

I love you!

Merry Christmas!  

Mom