The Shade is Temporary, God is Not

What do the Spartans at Thermopylae, George Washington at Valley Forge, and a herd of buffalo all have in common? They all faced the storm head on — and so can we. This week Cydni and Sher dig into what it actually looks like to be a disciple of Christ when there is no way out, only through. They talk about Elder Neal A. Maxwell's extraordinary lesson that not shrinking is more important than surviving, how to reframe the arrows flying at you as shade worth fighting in, and why the gospel basics are really just Spartan training for your soul. There is also a lot of Cydni bringing heart and chaos, which AI apparently told her is her entire job description. This week's episode is "The Shade Is Temporary — God Is Not" and we are so glad you are here!

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Episode 163 - The Shade is Temporary, But God is Not

Cydni: [00:00:00] I have to do a mom brag because I am so proud. Of my boys, we had to go to the mall to get ready for prom, and as we walked through a department store, we walked right into, you know, when you first walk in and there's all of those fancy purses.

Sher: For sure. 

Cydni: I knew you would know. 

Sher: Yeah, for sure. I pay attention to that. 

Cydni: When you go shopping at department stores. Mm-hmm. For your Louis Vuitton bag. 

Sher: Yeah, that's what 

Cydni: I'm looking for. Okay. That's kind of what the vibe was. 

Sher: Yeah. Uhhuh. 

Cydni: And we walk in and my son says so loudly. 'cause there's two greeters to come and be like, which bag do you like? He says, mom, are you feeling tempted right now when you see all these purses? So I'm thinking he thinks. I am tempted to go shopping which doesn't make sense 'cause I don't have purses like that. And I'm like tempted. And he is like, are you tempted to steal again mom? And he is like, do you want me to stay close to you so you don't have the temptation to steal [00:01:00] again?

then my other son caught the idea of this, and they did it through the entire mall. Everywhere we went they were like, watch mom. We don't want her to get arrested. Again, and we had so many people just looking over to see what's going on and I felt just so embarrassed. And I was so proud of that because they got me. Welcome to the Cydni and Sher Podcast 

Sher: Okay, Cydni. Few weeks ago we got to talk about general conference, but. In between that we were talking about the gospel basics of being courageous and unshakeable, both of which are qualities that Cydni and I are definitely working on. So Today we wanna focus on what it looks like to be courageous and unshakeable when there doesn't appear to be a way out.

Cydni: But let's talk about one way you've been courageous lately, Sher. Sher was very courageous by using AI to get feedback on our podcast, I guess. 

Sher: Yeah, that's true. 

Cydni: All right, well, let's just talk [00:02:00] about that for a second, because I'm not gonna be able to move on to what she sent me here in this description of who we are AI told Sher that her job is history and scriptures and quotes, and she's the connective tissue. And then mine just says, I bring heart and chaos. That's it. And then yours, it's like, here's some good ideas of how you could go about it and improve what you're already doing. And there's like paragraphs of this and that. Mine just says. Let her go. Let her do her thing. If she's listening, she will reply. Just let her react to the story. It's probably something about this and I just feel, I'm not sure Sher

Sher: Okay, Cydni, first of all, you overexaggerated it just a little bit, and second of all, I think it's because you often. Use the word chaos to describe yourself. So aI is picking up on the word that you use. Don't tell me that you don't know. That's [00:03:00] true. 

Cydni: Even if it's true, why does AI use just a few words unless this is your AI and they're trying to make you feel good so that everyone's personal AI system is going to be like, Hey, you're so amazing the way you are. Don't change anything. You're the connective tissue. 

Sher: No, that is not it. Now, I've already answered this question Cydni, and she knows she's just like baiting me at this point. 

Cydni: Rage baiting. 

Sher: what happened? Is, this was only for me. I was asking feedback for me, but then it said that about you and I thought it was funny and so I sent it to you, which clearly was a mistake 

Cydni: obviously.

'cause I've been just like up every night like, what did AI mean? Just let her go. What does that mean? Just let her go. Like, just let her say what she was gonna say or fire her. Let her go. I don't know what that means, but I put it into my own ai because we've bonded and AI thinks I'm funny and it said I actually was the connective tissue and the other AI said you were connective tissue and [00:04:00] that's what the truth is. 

Sher: I'll go with it. I don't, 

Cydni: it's not the truth. I didn't even try. I don't, 

Sher: I just want whatever makes you feel better. That's what I believe. 

Cydni: Well, listen, I'm just here to bring some heart and chaos today. 

Sher: That's weird. 

Cydni: I actually think it's hilarious.

Sher: That's why I sent it. And look what happened. I should have known better. 

Cydni: I think it's because AI doesn't know how to figure me out. And then I've been feeding my ego with it. I'm not codeable, I. 

Sher: That's true. She has said that like almost every conversation we've had since then, 

Cydni: AI is like, we don't know how to duplicate that. 

Sher: Hallelujah. 

Cydni: Okay. We could focus now. 

Sher: , I'm gonna bring it back by telling you a history story, which was actually your idea. 

Cydni: I love this story. 

Sher: I do too, i'm gonna tell you the story of Thermoy, and this is from the year 480 bc, the Persian Empire. Under the King Xerxes invaded Greece with a massive army. So I was reading about how big the army was and it ranged. From [00:05:00] 100,000 to 2 million. I'm just gonna say, pick your favorite number. 

Cydni: That's, that's a massive range. 

Sher: It is. Ancient sources. Say one to 2 million modern historians say 100,000 to 300,000. 

Cydni: I like the 2 million.

Sher: I think that's a good number. I like that. 

Cydni: It'll make the story better. 

Sher: It will. 

Cydni: It's, I'm always about exaggeration. 

Sher: All right, so the pass at Therm. Opoly was super narrow. It was just a narrow mountain pass. And the Spartans who were Greek, but were obsessed with the military and being soldiers, and they chose this pass strategically because it was about 50 feet wide. This is about as wide as our church, gym and this 2 million over exaggerated number that we're giving of the Persians needed to pass through this 50 feet wide pass. So the Spartan's goal was to hold the pass until their fellow Greek citizens could get there to help them. 

 The Spartan King Leonis had [00:06:00] approximately 7,300 soldiers, and they held that pass for three days against this full Persian force. The Persian sent messengers demanding that the Spartans lay down their weapons. And Leonis replied, come and take them. When the Persians threatened that their arrows would dark in the sky, the Spartan reply became absolutely legendary.

They said so much the better we shall fight in the shade. So the Spartans ultimately, they're gonna be betrayed by a Greek traitor who showed the Persians, a secret mountain path around. Spartans. And so they got surrounded. So Leonis, he decided to dismiss their allies. They had 7,000 allies with them, which meant that there were only 300 Spartans left. eventually the Persians are gonna win. But the Spartan sacrifice bought time for Greece, and it became known as one of the most powerful acts of defiance in military [00:07:00] history.

And the rest of the Greek soldiers were able to get where they needed to be to eventually defeat the Persians. So this month we have been talking about courage. Not being shaken or unmovable. And today we want to ask the question, what does a disciple of Christ actually do when the arrows are flying? Life is darkened and you can't find your way out. 

Cydni: I do love this history lesson, and where I first learned this story is Neal A. Maxwell talk, and I've always been very drawn to his talks and I found in my life that he is a person. If I'm struggling spiritually, I could listen to his talk and it just redirects me. He just puts me back on the path. I feel the spirit again. I feel motivated to. Continue and move forward, and I've always appreciated that. But I've not listened to a Neal A. Maxwell talk for a long time, and I have found, as we've been studying, every talk that I look up around the subjects we're working on, it's either a talk by him or [00:08:00] they're quoting him I love him and there's a talk by Elder Bednar and he quotes Elder Maxwell.

But he says in it that Elder Maxwell was going through leukemia and in an April conference he gave, it's about a seven minute long talk. He spent 46 consecutive days in chemotherapy to be able to give that speech. And it's just like six and a half minutes something that stood out, not necessarily the words, but how it was making me feel. This man had been through so much it had been a very difficult time, and the talk feels like a testimony of gratitude. Recognizing God's hand is very involved in our life.

And there was so much humor and lightheartedness in it, I looked back on several of his talks that are my favorite, and all of them are about having courage and having faith in the difficult times. It's about what true discipleship means. It's about persevering, and it's about what it [00:09:00] takes to become a true Christian and a true disciple of Christ.

 And it just brought it all together to me that of course, elder Neal A. Maxwell's quoted so often about being a disciple in difficult times because so much of his life was a challenging time with his health.

But he always stayed faithful and he always recognized that God's hands were in his life and that he was being developed everything he was going through was helping him become the man he was supposed to be. And I loved this quote from Jeffrey R. Holland. he says this with apologies to Elder Neal A. Maxwell for daring to modify and enlarge something. He once said, I too suggest that ones life cannot be both faith filled and stress free, it simply will not work to glide naively through life saying as we sip another glass of lemonade.

Lord, give me all thy choices, virtues, but be certain not to give me grief, nor [00:10:00] sorrow, nor pain, nor opposition. Please do not let anyone dislike me or betray me, and above all, do not ever let me feel forsaken by thee or by those I love. In fact, Lord be careful to keep me from all the experiences that made The Divine, and then when the rough sledding by everyone else is over.

Please let me come and dwell with thee where I can boast about how similar our strengths and our characters are as I float along the cloud of comfortable Christianity, and then he adds my beloved brothers and sisters. Christianity is comforting, but it is not comfortable, and is there a better person to be quoting other than Christ himself who represents? Allowing, surrendering to God's will to help you become who you are intended to be. The Neal A. Maxwell for me, he just speaks right to my heart,

Sher: and I think Elder [00:11:00] Maxwell is the perfect example of what does a disciple of Christ actually do when the arrows are flying and life is darkened and you can't find your way out. disciples of Christ should be mentally, spiritually, and emotionally prepared to function and maybe even thrive when circumstances feel stacked against them.

Let's specifically talk about what does fighting in the shade actually look like? The answer for me when I was trying to answer this question is the shade could be. Hardships trials, those long, nasty gray stretches of just blah, the blah of life, unanswered prayers, illness, faith, just not happening.

No matter how hard you're trying you're just not feeling it. Or not feeling worthy or grief. And the list could go on and on. But remember, the shade is made up of arrows that are coming right at you. And so the arrows, when they hit, they cause doubt and discouragement and [00:12:00] temptation and exhaustion.

And what the Spartans did, that was so incredible is they didn't run away from the arrows. They reframed it. They looked at it as, oh, good, you're blocking the sun, so I'm not gonna be so hot. We'll fight in the shade. That's fantastic. They reframe their situation. Now, the reason this is important is because Satan wants hardships and unanswered prayers and so on to cause doubt and discouragement, and that. List. But the Spartans use the shade to dig in and say, I'm not moving. I'm gonna fight right here. This is just as good a place as any, and the thing that was supposed to terrify them, that statement of shooting so many arrows in the air, that it was gonna shade the sun from them it became the place that they were willing to fight? And Cydni, I'm all in for the history today, this story reminded me of Valley Forge. So in the winter of 17, 77 and 78, our army was definitely in the shade.

Britain's army at the [00:13:00] time, the European armies believed that they should not fight in the winter, and so they would go hold up someplace that was really nice and get fat and sassy and where everything was fine. And our army was starving, freezing. Many of the soldiers were without food. They were wrapping their feet in rags. Over two thousands of our soldiers died of diseases and just exposure to the winter a year before Valley Forge. Washington was so exhausted then that he wrote a letter to his brother and in the letter he said, I think the game is pretty near up now, this is a year later.

I can't even imagine how much closer to the game being over he must have felt at this period. But instead of throwing his hands in the air and saying, well, I guess we're sunk. There's nothing we can do. We're not gonna survive the winter, we might as well just give up. Instead he did the opposite.

 He chose to fight in the shade. So first of all, he stayed with his soldiers, which at the time, the [00:14:00] officers didn't have to stay with the soldiers. They could move into the cities and get fat and sassy, like I said. Or they would return home for the winter. So it was very uncommon for the officers to even stay with the soldiers during the winter, but he chose to stay and then he found a German drill sergeant that was pretty tough and was willing to come and help us out at Valley Forge.

He brought in a man named Baron von Steuben, and he asked this man to get our soldiers in shape and ready for the spring. So they stayed in the cold and the snow and they drilled and they prayed like crazy. Valley Forge changed our army. I always told my students that Valley Forge created like a super army where the entire army was now made up of thousands of Navy sills.

Valley Forge created soldiers. If the men followed the example of George Washington that were mentally, physically, and spiritually tough. This is what the shade and [00:15:00] arrows did for our military, and this is what the shade can do for our lives. Last week I read Helaman chapter five, verse 12, and I'm just gonna paraphrase it, it says, and now my sons remember. Remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer who is Christ the Son of God, that you must build your foundation. When the devil shall send forth his mighty winds ye his shafts in the whirlwind, it shall have no power over you to drag you down. When we build our foundation and our testimony on the rock of our Redeemer. We are ready when the shade and the arrows come flying our way. We are like trained Christian navy seals or Spartan soldiers that are just ready to go. At least that's the goal. 

Cydni: One story about. Neal A. Maxwell was that Elder Bednar asked him what have you learned the most from all of the things that you've been going through? And his answer is that it is better to not [00:16:00] shrink than survive. And I've spent a lot of time thinking about that. That changes how you reframe things. For sure. I would say. 

The reframing thought, I've spent a lot of time thinking about this because, I think that could change how we handle everything. And we kind of talked about this, that we get to make a decision right now. Is this going to make us better? Is it gonna make us bitter? We get to decide, and I looked at this idea that they were in darkness, but they called it shade.

And when I thought of the word shade, I thought of shadow. You know how a shadow dances like around a tree? And it doesn't ever stay right there, but it moves. And so where darkness feels like an eternal darkness, like the. Steps of hell. Darkness is what I think of when I think of darkness. But when I was thinking of shade or shadow, I looked up what shadow meant and I liked it for this. So let me just reframe this and like force it to work. Okay. Sher. But a shadow is a dark area or [00:17:00] shape cast on a surface. When an object intercepts light, it signifies partial darkness. Or a faint trace. So just to try to make this work. I was thinking not just like that heavy darkness, you're not going to be there forever, but it's a faint trace. It's just a temporary shadow. It's temporary shade, and we know that the light will come again. And I just thought sometimes maybe that would help to remember when we're in really difficult times, that we know this because of our experience on this earth that dark times shadows, shade. It comes, the world will throw shade at you, Sher it's going to happen, but the light will prevail again. 

Sher: And sometimes in the midst of those trials, you feel like all you can do is just clinging to that hope that the light will come back. And that's the best you can do to reframe it. And I think that's okay. 

Cydni: I think so too. And if we consider that it's better to not shrink than to survive, then we can [00:18:00] know that we don't know when we will be relieved of whatever is weighing heavily on us. We don't know when we'll get relief and if it won't be in this life, but it is better to not shrink That to me takes courage to actually believe. I was inspired by Dr. Charles Stanley. I really love his sermons, and he was talking about Paul and he said that. A few things. Paul did have courage was one, he was aware that God was with him. And I thought that would help us in the darkest of dark or the shadowy of shadows when we are struggling. That if we first reframed what we were going through and understood that God is with us, that we just like Enoch, I love so much that he did the same steps to heal his eyes. But he was already able to see, but he put the clay on his eyes and washed 'em so he could spiritually see. I love that idea because I feel like we could all maybe relate to that, that we also need to open up our eyes [00:19:00] spiritually and just be aware that God is with you.

Another thing he said was to recognize that your strength comes from God, and recognizing where our strength comes from makes us as invincible, as long as it's God's will. And in Psalms 46 it says, God is our refuge and strength and ever present help and trouble. therefore, we will not fear. And this last one I thought to help us reframe the situations that we're going through is from Tamara Ronia. I just remembered that she had talked about zooming out, and I thought, okay, so if we're aware that God is with us and we recognize that our strength is reliable because it comes from God and.

Then to remember to zoom out that what is right in our face might feel massive, but if we remember to zoom out and see an eternal perspective that could give us the courage to continue to move forward. And I told Sher to prepare. I listened to another. Near death [00:20:00] experience. 'cause that's what I do because it pops up on my algorithm and I can't say no, I love them.

Something I love so much about this one woman's is that she said she had died and when she went to where she went, that it felt like everything was a classroom. And she saw people in classrooms and she said that they were learning and preparing to come to Earth, and that when they were preparing and learning to come to Earth, they weren't talking about what their career would be.

They weren't talking about money or fame. They were talking about how do we live in such a way to remember God. And to love those around us and that they were actually picking the trials that they would go through. They were going to classes and learning about one trial or pain and to another one, and they were picking it out like a buffet.

Like, oh, I'll take a little bit of this and a little bit of that, which sounds insane. I understand. But also. What if we did choose some of the difficulties that we go through? Because when we zoomed out and had an [00:21:00] eternal perspective, we knew what we would gain from it. What if we knew we would be asked to fight in the shadows and we said, we will do it because we know it'll be worth it because of our eternal perspective.

Sher: Cydni. I'm not gonna lie. I actually did like your insight on that near death experience. That was good. 

Cydni: Thank you. I loved that one. There's a few I listened to that I stop listening to if they say something I don't agree with. So I'm kind of picky with it. 

Sher: I think that's good. 

Cydni: You 

Sher: Should be, 

Cydni: thanks. 

Sher: But as Cydni and I were talking, we thought in those classes as they're getting us ready, it's kind of like the Spartan soldiers and how they prepared so these are some gospel basics that help us fight in the shade.

So first of all, Spartan men were trained as soldiers starting at the age of seven, and they continued this training until they were 20. So basically the Spartans were prepared for battle in any type of situation, any type of weather, anything that came along, they were ready for it.

Cydni: Did you know that's [00:22:00] where CrossFit originated from? 

Sher: Really? 

Cydni: No, but it sounds good, huh? 

Sher: Yeah, it does. I should have known. All right, Back to it. The Spartan soldiers, they were trained for any type of situation, and this is gonna give them confidence and it's gonna give them faith because they were prepared and they had done the work.

They didn't know the outcome, but they're ready. With 7,300 soldiers or only 300 soldiers, they were ready to go because they had confidence and faith in the work that they had put in. So. The first gospel basic. Faith. The second one is repentance. The Spartans dropped the weight when they needed to. Now what I mean by that is the Spartans were so committed to holding the pass that. When they ran out of weapons or their weapons were broken, they just kept fighting with whatever they had. They were willing, this is the important part, to let go of their spears and their shields and fight with their bare hands and even their teeth if they had to. [00:23:00] They were willing to let go of the things that were helping them fight anymore, 

Cydni: I just pictured two of my children right now, actually, when you were saying this, like just in the living room, that they were willing to, like whatever weapons they need. Including teeth. I just saw my children. I just want you to know. 

Sher: That's a happy family image there, Cydni. 

Cydni: Oh yeah. Please follow us for a perfect family. We're really great at Family Inc. . We're freaking the Spartan War every day of our life. We're like, oh, fighting the shade. I'm like, put down those weapons. I'll bite you. 

Sher: Little beavers. 

Cydni: What a weird family everyone else is. Great.

Sher: All right. Well, back to the story. The Spartans, they were willing to even let go of all comforts if necessary. They would not eat. They would have their beds. They would let go of all material possessions. Anything that they had to do, they would do it in order to win the battle. So what are we holding onto that maybe we could let go of to win our own personal battles? We don't need to carry everything.

The third basic of the gospel that we wanna [00:24:00] focus on is keeping our covenants. The Spartans understood and knew where they needed to stand. They needed to stand at the pass. Not move. When we make covenants, this is what we are doing. We are saying, this is where we stand. We're gonna hold this pass and we are not gonna move.

The fourth basic of the gospel is having the spirit with us. When the sky goes dark, we can still have the Holy Ghost with us. The Spartans weren't afraid of the arrows, darkening the skies. They were fine fighting in the shade When we have the spirit with us. We can fight in the shade because that light is still in us. Fifth is enduring to the end. The Spartans held that pass for three days, not forever. Just long enough to make a difference for the rest of Greece. That's what we're doing. This is not going to last forever. We need to hold on to make our difference here on Earth now and complete our mission that our Heavenly [00:25:00] Father has tailor made for each and every one of us.

I know this was super short, but we're gonna go back over these basics in May and we'll dig into each topic. Next month,

Cydni: speaking of algorithm, I know you didn't say algorithm, but speaking of algorithm on the LDS living page on Instagram, they shared something I loved so much, and I'm going to tell you about the buffalo versus cows.

I did not know this about them, but they both can sense a storm when it's coming they can sense it before humans and they react and handle the storms completely different when the cattle know a storm is coming, they turn their booties and they take off and try to outrun the storm, and usually the storms catch up and it's sad for them. But the buffalo, when they sense that a storm is coming, they dig their, are they hooves? Feet seas their feet. Seas. Yeah. That's [00:26:00] it. okay. 

But the buffalo, they face the storm and they dig their hooves into the ground and they run into the storm. this has perplexed scientist of why they would possibly do this. And one thing they found is that they always do it together as a herd. They face the storm. They don't turn their backs on the storm, and they found that when they do this, that they have less time in the storm because they're facing it head on and running through it, and then they're on the other side.

Cows, they get stuck in it and they're unprepared and they have more injuries and it's more chaos. And the herds sometimes scatter. But the buffalo, they always stay together and it shows in their appearance and their physical appearance of how different they are, that buffalo, their mighty and strong and their like ferocious big beast. Their physical traits have adapted because they're willing to face the storm.

Sher: What kind of storm are they facing? I mean, is it like a [00:27:00] tornado? Is it a hurricane? Is it rain? 

Cydni: Like Black Friday shopping? It's blizzards. 

Sher: They run into blizzards. 

Cydni: Yeah. Snowstorms. Blizzards, I.

Sher: I'm just thinking. When I was in Yellowstone, the snow just fell on him. 

Cydni: Maybe Yellowstones are like more gentle buffalo but it doesn't matter. The point is that. If there was a storm, they would run into it with their feet seas.

Sher: so the point of that whole story is when there's a storm, we should go head on into it rather than run away. With our.

Cydni: That's exactly the point. Sher, God is walking with us, and we just have to follow his path with our feet. Sees.

Sher: Cydni, you did get us to the ultimate secret weapon that we have. So for that, I thank you. 

Cydni: You are welcome. Someone has to be the connective tissue. 

Sher: We do have the Savior and the Atonement. Our savior. Is there with us. He will comfort us, lift us, and help [00:28:00] us. If we start to move there for us.

We can lean on him, turn to him, and he is always there waiting for us. Our Savior fought in the darkest shade imaginable for each one of us, and He won. He's willing to meet us in our shade and stay there with us. Elder Holland said, don't give up. Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep trying. There is help and happiness ahead. A lot of it, you keep your chin up. It will be all right in the end. Trust God and believe in good things to come.

Cydni: Dr. Stanley also said two things I feel are helpful as we try to reframe the storms that come our way. He said that sometimes we get frustrated because we say to ourselves, things are just not going my way. But what if they're going God's way? What if the things that you feel like are not going your way are because God wants them to go a certain way? Because deep down the person you're [00:29:00] supposed to be. Requires things to go His way, and you are required to surrender. And in that surrender you will deepen your faith and your understanding, and you will be able to have courage when the darkness comes. He also said, nowhere does it say you are meant to completely understand everything he just said., We are meant to trust that we're meant to believe and we're meant to not fear.

We challenge you to prepare yourself so that you too can face the coming challenges and this will come by deepening your faith and by repentance, by keeping our covenants working to have the spirit with us and enduring until the end.

Sher: This brings us to our final thoughts. The Spartans didn't have a way out, but they did have a way through 50 feet of ground, 300 men and a sky full of arrows, and they planted their feet and said, we are not moving. That is what a disciple looks like, someone who has built their [00:30:00] foundation. On the rock of our redeemer before the arrows ever start flying. Because of that foundation, the shade and the arrows, they do not get to win. And here is what Cydni and I do know we are not doing this alone. Our Savior already fought in the darkest shade imaginable. For each one of us and He won. He is not watching from the sunlight peeking around the corner waiting to see how we do. He is in the shade with us and he is not leaving. So whatever pass you are holding right now, hold it. And remember, our Savior is fighting with you. This is our prayer 

Cydni: from Cydni and Sher. Okay.

Wait, though it [00:31:00] actually does tie together because look, it's like the Spartans planted their feet, seas, and they held ground just like the buffalo. Correct. Okay. Amen. I don't like where this is at. Oh, it's 'cause I'm wearing taller shoes.

Sher: Thermo. Thermo. Thermo. Okay. Thermo. And the Spartans, who were part of who? The Spartan. Okay, come on. Sher, wake up. 

Cydni: I am prepared. I swear it, and then I'll add the chaos. 

Sher: Last week, I think it was last week.

Cydni: You're trapped. I didn't mean to bring some shade.

Sher: They ran out of weapons or their weapons or their weapons be. Are their weapons. I can't even say it. You're so gifted at this. Elder Holland said, don't give up. Don't you quit. You keep walking, you keep with your feet season. You have to keep that in there. 

Cydni: You are meant to trust. Stop laughing I'm gonna hit you with a pillow. I won't hit you with a pillow then I'll kick you with my feet Cs though. 

Sher: Thanks for joining us. 

Cydni: We're so glad you're here. [00:32:00]