Marilee Killpack: The Power to Save
All In
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🗓️ 16 October 2019
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Nearly two years ago, Marilee Killpack gave birth to a baby boy. That baby boy was diagnosed with Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome, a life-threatening genetic syndrome that affects just one in 250,000 children and is only symptomatic in boys. The life expectancy was 3-5 years. There was, however, one possible way to save his life: He could receive a bone marrow transplant and his 7-year-old brother was a perfect match.
"I can't articulate it well, but I came to love Abram as a mom because he was saved and needed saving. And I think of our Heavenly Parents who have this Son, who is perfect and they know He's going to do it and they know He's going to be awesome and then to look at us, like I look at Abram and realize he needs saving. He's not going to make it and there's just such a love that I can't explain for him for fighting, and for being saved by his older brother."
Show Notes:
2:15- Abram's Story
7:19- Finding Peace
9:35- The Lord's Preparations
12:11- A Perfect Match
15:46- The Saving Power Between Siblings
19:41- "Witness What the Lord Has Done"
24:32- Feeding the Soul
26:25- Promises of the Temple
28:32- "The Family That Prays Together"
33:02- The Faith Not To Be Healed
36:32- "All Is Well"
40:20- "The Lessons We Came to Earth to Learn"
43:55- What Does It Mean To Be "All In" the Gospel of Jesus Christ?
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| 0:00.0 | One son is in need of saving. |
| 0:03.0 | His older brother has the ability and the power to save. |
| 0:08.0 | It is a story that sounds familiar to us. |
| 0:11.0 | It is a story that Mary-Lee Kilpack and her family have been living for the past year and a half. |
| 0:18.0 | Mary-Lee wrote the following about the bone marrow transplant from her oldest son Copeland to her youngest son Abram. |
| 0:25.0 | There's is a story of need and offering, of health and sickness, of accomplishing together what one cannot do alone, |
| 0:34.0 | of miracles against all odds, of heroes who fight and heroes who give, of connection that runs so deep it literally runs in their bones, |
| 0:44.0 | of giving new life where there may not have been. |
| 0:48.0 | It's a story of hope we are humbled and honored to tell. |
| 0:53.0 | In 2014 following a successful Kickstarter, Mary-Lee Kilpack co-founded Gather, |
| 1:00.0 | a modern leather goods company that seeks to make space for the worthwhile. |
| 1:05.0 | Gather spelled G-A-T-H-R-E has since expanded its product line, |
| 1:11.0 | but its original mats have been featured by Vogue Readers Digest and New York Magazine. |
| 1:18.0 | Mary-Lee and her husband Devon are the parents of four children. |
| 1:23.0 | This is All-In, an LDS living podcast where we ask the question, |
| 1:27.0 | what does it really mean to be All-In, the gospel of Jesus Christ? |
| 1:32.0 | I'm Morgan Jones and I am so grateful to have my friend Mary-Lee Kilpack with me today, Mary-Lee, welcome. |
| 1:39.0 | Thank you. |
| 1:40.0 | I'm so happy to be here such an honor. Very humbled. |
| 1:44.0 | It's a great podcast. |
| 1:45.0 | You have so much to share with people and so I'm so excited for people to hear your story. |
| 1:51.0 | I scoured Mary-Lee's Instagram account the other day, |
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