The Grandgirls Unleashed!

About every 6 months or so we get the grand-girls together...Presley (10), Olivia (6) and Sophia (5) - this was recorded around America's 250th Celebration. Yes, the monkeys are let loose - be forewarned that they are not professionals and often get too close to the mic...but, this a moment etched in history.  Enjoy!

Freedom is easy to celebrate until you slow down and ask a child what it actually means. Sister Diahanna sits down with the Gran-Girls, Sophia, Olivia, and Presley, plus Sister Audia, for our summer hangout that starts with pure Fourth of July joy: fireworks, family time, and the little moments that make summer break feel magical.

Then the conversation turns deeper in a way only kids can do, simple words that hit hard. We talk about freedom of worship, the gift of being able to pray and go to church openly, and the sobering truth that many believers around the world face persecution for doing those same things. We also share why we support children through Compassion International and how faith should move us toward real compassion, not just talk.

From there, we lighten it up with back-to-school excitement, making new friends, and the ultimate childhood goal: getting your own room. If you’ve ever navigated sibling drama, privacy, or teaching gratitude in a busy home, you’ll recognize the humor and the heart. We wrap with what the girls love most right now, a sweet nod to family and Mexican heritage (and the food), plus a quick Michael Jackson moment that brings the whole table to life.

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Transcript

Welcome And Meet The Green Girls

SPEAKER_00 0:19

Thank you so much for joining me on this journey today. Can we be a real ship? It's not always easy. So let me just be a smack. Let's open the word and see what Jesus has to say today. Hey, welcome to Sybil Sampleship Unfiltered. I'm your host, Sister Diane, and we have a very special episode today because we're joined by the Green Girls. How y'all doing? We have Sophia. Say hello. Hello. Hello. Say hello to Olivia. Hello. You don't have to get that close. And we say hello to Presley. Hi. Hey. And we're joined by Sister Audia. How are y'all doing? Hey. We're all good. Everybody good? Yes. Yes. So this is our seemingly annual girls thing where we've had you guys for a few days this summer so that y'all can just celebrate being together. Because I know that Sophie and Olivia just love Presley, right?

SPEAKER_04 1:28

Mm-hmm. Why?

SPEAKER_00 1:29

Oh yeah. Why? She's the best. Oh. What does she do that you like so much?

SPEAKER_03 1:35

She played by you with me. Barbies? Okay.

SPEAKER_00 1:40

And what about you, Olivia? She sits next to me at breakfast. Yeah, she sits next to you. They really love you, Presley. So thank you for coming and and bearing with them uh for the last few days. How you doing? Good. Yeah. Are you glad to be out for the summer?

SPEAKER_04 1:58

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 1:59

You ready to go back to school? Kind of. Kinda. I know you like school. So what grade are you gonna be in?

Summer Catch-Up And Grades

SPEAKER_00 2:05

Fifth. Fifth? Olivia, what grade are you going in? First. And baby?

SPEAKER_03 2:10

Kindergarten.

SPEAKER_00 2:11

Kindergarten. So it's gonna be so fun. So fun. Alright. So what did we just celebrate a couple days ago? Uh the fourth of July. We sure did. And what did you like the most about the Fourth of July? Fireworks. Fireworks? Alright. So where did you see fireworks?

SPEAKER_03 2:36

Well, we celebrated that 4th of July.

SPEAKER_00 2:39

Yeah, but where where did you see it?

SPEAKER_03 2:41

At the car show.

SPEAKER_00 2:43

Yeah, he went to the car show at the time.

SPEAKER_03 2:45

And we saw it on the cars.

SPEAKER_00 2:47

He did. There were some cool cars, weren't there?

SPEAKER_03 2:49

Those big cars too.

SPEAKER_00 2:51

Yeah. What about you, Olivia? What did you see?

SPEAKER_03 2:54

We s we did fireworks at the house in Canton.

SPEAKER_00 2:59

Yeah, because you're outside the city, so you get to you get to pop those. What about you? What did you do Presley for the court?

SPEAKER_02 3:06

I went to my grandma's and she got an inflatable like water slice.

SPEAKER_00 3:13

Oh, how fun. Do you enjoy that? Mm-hmm. That was a that was a good day. That was a good day. Okay, so what is if we say freedom, what does freedom mean to you?

SPEAKER_03 3:28

That you get to go free with the animals.

SPEAKER_00 3:32

Yeah, what else?

SPEAKER_03 3:34

Yeah, free with the animals. Yeah. Run free and happy that it's the fourth of July.

SPEAKER_00 3:42

Yeah. And what about you, Presley? What does freedom to mean to you?

SPEAKER_01 3:54

Anything. What do you get to do every Sunday? Go to Go to church? Yeah, go to church. You get to pray. Mm-hmm.

Fourth Of July Highlights

SPEAKER_01 4:05

Even with and nobody can stop you, right? Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_00 4:09

Yeah, do y'all realize that there's people all over the world that they don't have that freedom to worship God, to go to church, to read a Bible, to sing a song to Jesus?

SPEAKER_01 4:22

That when they do that, they get beheaded.

SPEAKER_00 4:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 4:25

They get their heads cut off.

SPEAKER_00 4:26

Yeah, or they just you know, some type of death. They're not they don't survive that. But they want to so much to love the Lord that they they take that, make that sacrifice. So you, because you live in the great United States of America and you live in the great state of Texas, you have freedom to do that still. You have freedom to worship the Lord freely. You have freedom to go to school. There's a lot of kids around the world that don't even get to go to school. You know, we talk about our kids that we help, you know, every month with Compassion International. We we do support them highly. And we have children that are my my two kids are in Kenya, uh Naaman, and then Seleomi. No, Seleomi is in Sri Lanka. And so they just had a big typhoon storm out there, and so their little village got kind of destroyed, but she's okay. But the point is that we live in this America, the United States, we get to celebrate things that people around the world don't get to do. Not everybody gets to do that.

SPEAKER_01 5:36

And for you girls, I just want you to understand how lucky you are and how blessed you are to live here. There are countries that girls aren't allowed to go to school. They're not allowed to learn to read. They're not allowed to keep a job, they only get to stay home and have kids.

SPEAKER_00 5:55

Do you know why? Because they're girls.

SPEAKER_01 5:59

Because they're just because they're girls.

SPEAKER_00 6:00

Just because they're girls. Some countries don't allow girls to do anything. But I wanna just kind of switch to a different thing because we're getting a little dark here. But uh when we talk about freedom, what's your favorite thing, baby, as a five-year-old girl? What's your favorite thing to do and to play?

SPEAKER_03 6:22

Yeah, I get to the handstand.

SPEAKER_00 6:24

You get to what? Talk like big talk.

SPEAKER_03 6:26

Do a handstand.

SPEAKER_00 6:28

Do a handstand?

SPEAKER_03 6:30

I mean, that's pretty cool.

SPEAKER_00 6:31

I mean, that's that's pretty fun. What about you, Olivia?

SPEAKER_03 6:35

I can't wait to have my own room.

SPEAKER_00 6:37

I know.

SPEAKER_03 6:38

When I can get ten.

SPEAKER_00 6:40

Yeah, when you're ten. The rule they have room at their house. Everybody has can have a room, but they have she has to be ten first before she can have her own room.

SPEAKER_03 6:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 6:49

And prove that she's responsible. And baby has to prove she's responsible for

What Freedom Means To Kids

SPEAKER_00 6:55

her own room, right? Not yet. She don't want to, she don't want the freedom of day.

SPEAKER_03 7:01

I can't like my own room and sleep without her snoring and peeing herself.

SPEAKER_00 7:06

Oh my gosh. How about you, Presley? What do you enjoy? As how old are you? Ten. Ten. What do you enjoy the most about PNT? Hello. Um. Because you have because you have brothers. You have two brothers, right? So your your two brothers, how do y'all get along? You have an older brother and a younger brother? Yeah. So you're in the middle. So you sometimes get along most of the time not get along.

SPEAKER_02 7:53

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 7:53

That's the truth. So what do you like most? We talked about we're about to go back to school. What do you like most about being in school?

SPEAKER_02 8:04

Um being able to see my friends and learn more.

SPEAKER_00 8:09

Yeah. Do you have like some friends that you live around that you kind of hang out with?

SPEAKER_02 8:15

Not really.

SPEAKER_00 8:16

But just during school? Yeah, just during school. Yeah. Alright. So how what about you, Olivia? What's your favorite part of school?

SPEAKER_03 8:24

Um, I used to sit by my friends, but now I don't.

SPEAKER_00 8:30

But you're going to new school this year.

SPEAKER_03 8:33

Yeah, I'm so ready.

SPEAKER_00 8:35

Are you ready?

SPEAKER_03 8:36

Yeah, I'm so ready to be in first grade.

SPEAKER_00 8:39

Right. And make new friends. Because you'll make new friends. You'll miss your old friends, but you'll make new friends, right? Alright, so baby, what about you? What are you looking forward to with school? Since you have your Kool-Aid now, you went and opened up a Kool Aid.

SPEAKER_03 8:59

Happy, happy, happy.

SPEAKER_00 9:00

You happy about kindergarten? Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. What do you want to do in kindergarten?

SPEAKER_03 9:05

I want to go to the playground.

SPEAKER_00 9:08

Well, let's go to the playground. So, I mean, you gotta have priorities, right? There'll probably be a cool playground there. Have you seen your school yet?

SPEAKER_03 9:17

Yeah, we've seen the school a hundred times.

SPEAKER_00 9:20

So you liked it? Are you excited about it?

SPEAKER_03 9:22

Yeah, they have a there's a big playground, uh slide and the other slide over there in the rock climbing area. It's fun.

SPEAKER_00 9:30

Looks fun. It looks fun, don't it? Alright, so if you could do one thing before school starts, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 9:39

Um what baby?

SPEAKER_00 9:46

What? Are you gonna make new friends? Okay. What about you?

SPEAKER_03 9:54

What did you say?

SPEAKER_00 9:56

If there's one thing you could do before school starts, what would it be?

SPEAKER_03 10:02

Going to my other friend's house.

SPEAKER_00 10:05

Yeah. What friend is that? Layton's Leighton. Yeah, I know your friends are leighting. What would be one thing you would do, Presley? If you could do anything, what'd you want to do before school starts? Go swimming. Go swimming. Where do you normally go swimming? Well, we don't normally go that much.

SPEAKER_02 10:32

So that's why I can't go.

SPEAKER_00 10:34

That's why you want to

Freedom To Worship Worldwide

SPEAKER_00 10:35

go. Let you go swimming. Alright. So, alright. Does anybody want to to say anything or share anything before we go? What baby? What you want to share, baby, before we go. Yeah, I love you guys. You love you? I love you too, baby. You're my mini me, I know, so that's why I can handle you. Because you're just like me. Tomboy and all. I love you. How about you, Olivia?

SPEAKER_03 11:16

Can't wait to be old enough and be alone in my own room.

SPEAKER_00 11:26

You're living for ten.

SPEAKER_03 11:28

I lived for sixteen.

SPEAKER_00 11:30

Oh, sixteen.

SPEAKER_03 11:32

I can't wait to have my own room. I'm gonna put no sister sign up.

SPEAKER_00 11:36

Oh.

SPEAKER_03 11:37

I'll go put no boy sign. I see bullshine, but no. Only Ma, not you.

SPEAKER_00 11:44

That's not kind.

SPEAKER_03 11:45

I don't want a girl. Sophia, come in.

SPEAKER_00 11:48

You just want your privacy.

SPEAKER_03 11:50

Yes. And a boy sign isn't like no boys allowed and no girls allowed.

SPEAKER_00 11:54

I understand. How about you, Presley? How's it at your house? Do you have a room? So you feel it, right?

SPEAKER_03 12:07

It's crazy with having a little sister. It's so bad. I would wish I had my own room now.

SPEAKER_00 12:14

Yeah, but wouldn't you be lonely if you didn't have a little sister? Would you be lonely if you didn't have a big sister? Look, you heard her feelings.

SPEAKER_03 12:22

I just want my own room.

SPEAKER_00 12:24

I just want peace.

SPEAKER_03 12:26

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 12:27

Everybody wants that.

SPEAKER_03 12:29

Well, when this big old monkey came, he starts grabbing all my stuff and throwing it on the floor.

unknown 12:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 12:36

So Presley, I know. Jameson kind of gives you the cold shoulder sometimes when he's older. And he's he's a teenager now, so he's cool. Likes to go rob pieces. No, not like that at all. And he's a big soccer star. So, but Jetson, he he kind of thinks you're the the best. I've noticed. He kind of he he kind of thinks you're pretty special. He always has. He kind of looks up to you. Do you do you see that? No. You don't see the side of me thinking he bothers you, right? Yeah. So but he really does. Jensen still thinks you're pretty special. He thinks you're both pretty special, you and Jensen, but he uh but being the youngest, he just wants to be just like y'all.

SPEAKER_00 13:35

So And that's what we tell them about baby, because Wesley's the oldest. He's not here,

Favorite Play And Back-To-School Hopes

SPEAKER_00 13:40

but he's the oldest by a lot. And so these two want to be like Wesley and be with Wesley and hang out with Wesley, and Wesley wants nothing to do with them. He wants just his own space.

SPEAKER_03 13:52

Yeah, I just want my own member to be nicer.

SPEAKER_00 13:55

Yeah, but that's why. It's just because they're so used to being by themselves before the other ones start coming along and then they're jealous because you get attention, they don't get attention.

SPEAKER_03 14:06

Yeah, r I really don't get attention that much.

SPEAKER_00 14:08

You don't think so? Yep. I think you get quite a bit.

SPEAKER_03 14:12

My mom was like, Wesley, you're so nice, thank you, thank you. Wesley can Wesley keeps giving stuff to mom what she wants, and Wesley keeps taking all our stuff and blaming on us.

SPEAKER_00 14:24

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 14:25

For no reason.

SPEAKER_00 14:26

Well that's part of having siblings, yeah. That's the problem with siblings. Uncle Ricky was the same way. Can you imagine that?

SPEAKER_03 14:34

Yes.

SPEAKER_00 14:35

He was like a brathead.

SPEAKER_03 14:37

So Wesley's a brat now.

SPEAKER_00 14:39

Yeah. So what's the good part? What is it that you do love about your family?

SPEAKER_03 14:45

My love. Dixie.

SPEAKER_00 14:48

The dog.

SPEAKER_03 14:49

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 14:50

We love Dixie. Dixie's been around for a long time.

SPEAKER_03 14:54

Yeah, she's getting way too old.

SPEAKER_00 14:56

She's probably about 13 or 14 years old.

SPEAKER_03 15:00

We haven't even celebrated her birthdays and give her some treats and stuff and Christmas.

SPEAKER_00 15:06

What about you, baby? What do you love about your family?

SPEAKER_03 15:09

Nothing.

SPEAKER_01 15:11

Well, that's baby all wrapped up in what about childhood honestly. Presley, what do you love about your family?

SPEAKER_00 15:26

Presley.

SPEAKER_03 15:30

I'll put that quick.

SPEAKER_00 15:36

I can tell you lots of things to love about you, but you have to say, Yeah, I mean you can't say that. You can't say that. Just what from your heart is what you love about your family. I mean, all of you are are very blessed that you have a mom and dad.

SPEAKER_03 15:59

Yeah, I'm very blessed. I have a mom and dad. I will live on the road street if I didn't have a road.

SPEAKER_00 16:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:07

I will live on the road street if I didn't have a mom and dad.

SPEAKER_00 16:10

Yeah. Wouldn't you what would what would you say, Olivia?

SPEAKER_03 16:13

I would be living on the road street without a mom and dad right now.

SPEAKER_00 16:17

Yeah. What do you love about your family, baby? Like, because we're talking about every one of you have or are blessed to have your mom and your dad in your life.

SPEAKER_03 16:29

Daddy, Wesley, Gunny, Ashley, Messiah. What about mom? Olivia, mommy, daddy, Bussy, Wesley.

SPEAKER_00 16:44

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 16:44

You already said Wesley.

SPEAKER_00 16:46

Yeah, Uncle. And Auntie Jan, yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:50

Brooke.

SPEAKER_00 16:51

So you're so blessed. I mean you have such a big family.

SPEAKER_03 16:54

Yeah, we

Siblings, Privacy, And Family Love

SPEAKER_03 16:55

have a whole big family in our garage.

SPEAKER_00 16:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 16:58

We have Uncle Brian. Yeah.

SPEAKER_00 17:00

Yeah, that's just that's on the other side too. You have a huge family.

SPEAKER_03 17:04

Yeah, like there's red and green, white.

SPEAKER_00 17:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 17:12

She's a big thing. I'm Mexican on you. I'm Mexican on you.

SPEAKER_00 17:19

Yeah. All of you are half Mexican. You're what do you like about your other nationality? What do you love about your Mexican side of the family?

SPEAKER_03 17:32

I love them this much.

SPEAKER_00 17:34

Yeah. What about you, Presley?

SPEAKER_03 17:36

I love my aunts. They're very kind and loving to me.

SPEAKER_00 17:42

Yeah.

unknown 17:42

I love you.

SPEAKER_00 17:43

Yeah. What about you, baby? What do you like about your Mexican side?

SPEAKER_03 17:48

I love Auntie, Uncle Brian. Yeah. And Jennifer.

SPEAKER_00 17:56

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_03 17:56

And Jen. And Uncle Ricky.

SPEAKER_00 17:59

And Uncle Ricky, yeah. So And and Daddy and Mommy. You know what I like about your Mexican side of the family? The food.

SPEAKER_01 18:09

Yeah. I'll second that.

SPEAKER_03 18:12

Oh, Abelita makes you good food.

SPEAKER_00 18:14

Yeah, Abelita sends me food over here, so it's like.

SPEAKER_03 18:17

No, that's actually our mom.

SPEAKER_00 18:19

That's that's your abelita.

SPEAKER_03 18:21

And our dad. Yes. You really have to say that in my part? How about you say it in Olivia's part?

SPEAKER_00 18:26

Yeah, it's all everybody's part. It's so good. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 18:30

I like when our our aunts make a puzzle. It's super good. I like it. Yeah, that's really good.

SPEAKER_00 18:38

Baby, what do you think? You wanna sing? What were y'all singing earlier? What were you singing earlier?

SPEAKER_03 18:47

Jelly Bean.

SPEAKER_00 18:55

What were you singing earlier? I cut jelly bean. It's not jelly bean, it actually is Billy Jean. You were singing Michael Jackson. Yeah, the Michael movie came out, and so they were watching.

SPEAKER_03 19:22

She told us already, she told us so soon.

SPEAKER_00 19:25

Yeah. So they're all on the Michael Jackson craze at the moment. I can remember Michael Jackson. I got my many, many years ago. Yeah. So all right, so we're gonna wrap it up. No, no, no, no, no, no.

SPEAKER_03 19:41

When you wanna be dad to speak. Oh, you want to be the crowd. The cats have lived.

SPEAKER_01 19:57

We have lost control.

SPEAKER_00 20:01

Alright, so here we go. To close the podcast out. What's one thing that you would like to share with the audience? Don't pull on that. What's the one thing you like to share and like them to know about you? I love Jesus. You do. What about you, Olivia?

SPEAKER_03 20:18

I love Michael's accent.

Heritage, Food, And A Song

SPEAKER_03 20:22

What about you, Presley?

SPEAKER_00 20:24

I love to read. You do love to read. That's such a great thing. I do ugly too. I like horses too, so. I know you like horses. Alright, so we're gonna wrap up. Bye bye. There's nothing else you want to add.

SPEAKER_03 20:41

Bye. Bye, bye, bye. Six, seven, love your show.

SPEAKER_00 20:46

What about you, Presley? What's one thing you want to close the program about? Um. I don't know. What's one thing that you really, really love to do right now at 10 years old, besides read?

SPEAKER_02 21:04

Play volleyball?

SPEAKER_00 21:06

Yeah. What about you, baby? What's one thing you love to do right now at six years old? Whoa.

SPEAKER_03 21:12

I like to go to the lake and start swimming. I'm my dad.

SPEAKER_00 21:23

Yeah, you're right by the lake now. What about you, baby? What's your favorite thing at five years old to do right now? Alright. See you, Michael Jackson. Okay. It's not that. Okay.

SPEAKER_03 21:41

Alright, here we go. Alright, we're gonna close out. Oh gosh!

SPEAKER_00 21:46

We always say to go show some love. Show some

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SPEAKER_00 21:50

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