Sarah Sun Kanell: Creating True Belonging and Inclusion

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Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 2 April 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Sarah Sun Kanell began attending a Salt Lake City residential ward as a high schooler. In that ward, she experienced what she describes as true belonging. This was only the beginning of Sarah’s conversion to the gospel of Jesus Christ but the people she met exemplified the person and disciple of Jesus Christ she wanted to be. On this week’s episode, Sarah shares what she has learned about the contribution we all have the ability to make to the Church of Jesus Christ.

Time stamps:

3:25- Honoring Sacrifice of Others
9:27- High Expectations and Gentle Parenting?
17:20- An Unconventional Living Situation
19:31- Gathered In
30:17- Barbara and Gaining a Testimony
33:13- Chosen
40:05- Unhistoric Acts
46:34- What Does It Mean To Be All In the Gospel of Jesus Christ?

“If I’m willing to choose Him then I think He can turn me into something better than what I can even imagine right now, and what better thing is there to be than His?”

Made For This book link- https://www.deseretbook.com/product/P6073753.html
BYU Hawaii talk- https://speeches.byuh.edu/trusting-god-with-the-rest-of-your-story
Lean in with Lizzy episode- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lean-in-with-lizzy/id1768159695?i=1000688795426
Kate Holbrook podcast- https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/all-in/id1439975046?i=1000526603170
Samuel Brown “Where The Soul Hungers” book- https://www.deseretbook.com/product/5252752.html?srsltid=AfmBOoq-XWAk7RyClW3i034cMC7VcJTfOZJEzzPca4uhGJrdjKMt_eWZ
Unhistoric Acts painting- https://www.thecompassgallery.com/product-page/unhistoric-acts-barton

Transcript

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0:00.0	In 2023, Sarah Sun-Kinnell, the daughter of Chinese immigrants, became the first woman of color to win Miss Utah.
0:09.1	She told the church news, for this to come to fruition was a really big deal because I feel the
0:14.3	responsibility to honor the sacrifices of my parents, my ancestors, and all other immigrants
0:20.3	who feel like these dreams are just too far
0:22.7	out of reach. I know that with God, anything is possible, and I'm grateful for the people in my life
0:28.4	who have helped me become a living testament of that, end quote. You will see throughout our interview
0:34.2	that this is not a platitude, but instead something that guides the way Sarah
0:38.5	lives her entire life. Sarah's son Connell is the current BYU student body president. She is a proud
0:45.9	Utahan who in her role as Miss Utah visited nearly every county in the state. She joined the Church
0:52.7	of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 17 and attended
0:56.1	Cornell prior to serving a mission at the Mormon Battalion Historic Site and in the Riverside
1:01.9	California mission speaking Mandarin Chinese. She has learned to play 11 instruments and has toured
1:07.9	the world as a piano soloist and with the BYU young ambassadors.
1:18.1	This is All In, an LDS Living podcast where we ask the question, what does it really
1:23.0	mean to be All In the gospel of Jesus Christ? I'm Morgan Pearson and I am am honored to have Sarah Sun-Kinell on the line with me today.
1:30.8	Sarah, welcome.
1:32.1	Thank you so much.
1:33.2	I'm so honored to be on the line with you, Miss Morgan Pearson.
1:37.1	Well, I am, I should tell people this crazy story because I feel like people will appreciate how wild this was.
1:44.8	Sarah and I were just revisiting the fact that when I spoke recently at BYU,
1:51.8	Hawaii, I quoted Sarah and I had her quote in my talk and I had planned for weeks.
1:59.0	I thought, I've got her number.
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