No Sanity Required
No Sanity Required is a weekly podcast hosted by Brody Holloway and Snowbird Outfitters. Each week, we engage culture and personal stories with a Gospel-driven perspective. Our mission is to equip the Church to pierce the darkness with the light of Christ by sharing the vision, ideas, and passions God has used to carry us through 26 years of student ministry. Find more content at swoutfitters.com.
No Sanity Required
Watching Grace Come Full Circle
At just 18 years old, Hannah Welch found herself pregnant, scared, and under pressure to marry quickly. Desperate for guidance, she reached out to Snowbird Wilderness Outfitters—and the response altered the course of her life. In this episode, Hannah sits down with Brody to share how that single conversation gave her the courage to slow down, seek God first, and make decisions rooted in biblical wisdom.
Now an ER trauma nurse and Snowbird’s camp nurse each summer, Hannah reflects on the journey from crisis to calling—and the incredible full-circle moment of watching her daughter Maddie, once the unborn baby in that desperate email, now serve on Snowbird’s summer staff.
This is a powerful story of God's faithfulness and generational impact—showing how His guidance in one life can echo through generations.
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Hello everybody, happy late 4th of July. I hope you guys had a wonderful weekend celebrating the independence of America. God bless America. We at camp had a great time. Andy I know Brody has bragged on Andy so much, but he went off this week, had brisket and baked beans and pound cake for Friday night dinner. It was awesome. And then, of course, we shot off the best fireworks in all of Western North Carolina, of course. So it's been a super fun week for us here down at Snowbird, or up at Snowbird, wherever you're at.
Speaker 1:And today Brody is sitting down with Hannah Welch, who has some crazy ties to Snowbird, but for the past like six, five or six years she's been coming up here and blessing us with her nursing skills and she is the camp nurse for a week, and so we're super grateful for her. She brings her family up here and her daughter, her oldest daughter her name is Maddie Welch, and Maddie, this is her second year on staff. Last year she was on Element and then this year she's on Summer Staff. But Maddie is my girl, she's my home girl. A lot of times people think we're sisters because we look alike we both have red hair.
Speaker 1:But Maddie is my dog, my home girl, but Maddie is my dog, my home girl. Hopefully, brody will be able to do a part two of this sometime in the future with Maddie and Hannah, because their story is just really cool and their connections to Snowbird is just really cool and there is a bunch of full circle moments throughout this episode where we're just able to see the Lord's faithfulness and redemption and just so. I'm super grateful for Hannah being able to sit down with Brody during this crazy week of camp. But I really hope you guys enjoy and are just able to glean something from this story.
Speaker 2:But welcome to no Sanity Required welcome to no sanity required from the ministry of snowbird wilderness outfitters. A podcast about the bible culture and stories from around the globe let's.
Speaker 3:So let's start by talking about what you do here, like what you're doing here this week, because you're not here as a leader, a camper, camper. Mom, give a little bit of what is your third year doing this.
Speaker 4:No, I started in 2020.
Speaker 3:OK, COVID year.
Speaker 4:When COVID hit, the email went out that y'all were looking to meet all of the standards for North Carolina to remain open and one of those was let's bring a nurse on. So I was, like, sign me up now, Like this is dream job. And it was still very didn't know all that the nurse role would be when I got here that first year in 2020.
Speaker 3:Cause we didn't know either.
Speaker 4:No, but it was, I was finally getting to plug in and be part of, uh, the snowbird ministry, and being able to be part of that in any way, shape or form was it was an honor. I was like, yes, that's so cool.
Speaker 3:That was a crazy year because talked about it on here before and there's a there's a whole chapter in the book on it, but the you know it was april of 2020 when every camp in america announced they're going to close down and that was when we, like it, shocked me to the point. I got in trouble because we were doing these Facebook live videos, and every morning, because we could only have six people. Remember that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, it got down to six people in one room or something like that Ten people, six people.
Speaker 3:It was small. Well, we have all these departments, so we were doing our 8 am meetings during not during summer, but like during the spring. Yeah, we're doing our 8 am meetings in departments. So the front office they would meet in here, maintenance would meet in the shop. You know, rec would meet in the rec shed and I would. I would do the 8 am meeting from the media office, but then we would just do it on facebook. So anybody that? So for them.
Speaker 4:I watched them. Yeah, I watched all of them.
Speaker 3:You're basically at our morning meetings.
Speaker 4:It was. It was a little peek behind the curtain.
Speaker 3:It was fantastic. Well, maybe we should do it in the future, you know, like once a week.
Speaker 4:I watched them.
Speaker 3:That'd be fun. That's cool. I didn't. I remember people were watching, but I've never thought about going back and doing that. Maybe this upcoming year we could do one meeting a week. We could stream it.
Speaker 4:I watched them. It was trying times. You were reading through and picking out of Every Moment Holy and I have picked up every one of those and like they are so applicable but you were picking pieces out of those and just they've become a staple, just in my prayer room that's so cool.
Speaker 3:yeah, yeah, we would. We had about the time we were trying to figure out, okay, how we're gonna run, everybody else said we're shutting down and out. Okay, how are we going to run? Everybody else said we're shutting down. And our board even was like maybe we need to shut down.
Speaker 3:And, uh, man, we just felt like, well, for one, I am extremely stubborn and I'm like there is no way that Roy Cooper, liberal Democrat governor North Carolina, is going to tell me what we can and can't do, and I'm a law-abiding citizen. But what he was doing executive orders is what were being signed. Well, that's not a law, it's not statutory, it's a declaration, it's an order from the executive branch of the government or whatever. And I was like, so we're trying to figure out, what do we have to abide by here? So we worked with local law enforcement, local commissioners, like we worked with our local government and got man, it was a miracle how the Lord made it a way for us to run that summer. But yeah, I mean, this ministry exploded. We grew about 13% in COVID and 92% of camps shut down.
Speaker 4:And it was funny. Like I checked with my youth minister, I was like, can I or like, do you care if I do double duty, because we do SMO when? We come.
Speaker 4:I was like, do you care if I do mission stuff with y'all when I can and then help with nurse duties? And he was like, yeah, that's fine. Whatever phone system y'all had set up that year, I didn't get a call the single week. And we got down to the bottom of the Ocoee, got next to Ocoee Lake and my phone just like blew up with all the calls I had missed.
Speaker 3:That was the day.
Speaker 4:As we were leaving.
Speaker 3:Like the day we left On your way out, on my way out, going back to Tennessee.
Speaker 4:Going back.
Speaker 3:I way out going back to tennessee.
Speaker 4:Going back I was like, oh, they were calling me, but like, funny it was, didn't work. There was just uh, I would stop by up here and be like do y'all need anything?
Speaker 3:and they're like no, I guess so we well, the little med bay that you're working out of this week. We had to make that. We built that during covid because we had to have a space and a cabin. That was a quarantine cabin.
Speaker 4:Now, since I guess that was year one, year two, I did a little bit. So 2021, I did a few nurse-y things, and then 2023, they had fully kind of embraced. We have a nurse.
Speaker 4:Like let's use her, let's, let's, let's really get some you know, help for the churches that come and bring all these students. And I remember 2023 was the busiest year. I could not sit down to eat like people would walk up to me and they were just like hey, do you have band-aids? Hey, do you have that? Have that. Like it was. There was like no holds bar, like use her for everything.
Speaker 3:So what's a okay, what is a typical day look like for the SWO camp nurse.
Speaker 4:Now it's different. Now they have streamlined.
Speaker 3:That was a peak year, so 2023,.
Speaker 4:I got hammered because I was still doing double duty.
Speaker 4:I was still trying to be with our church that was here and I remember Spencer walked up to me and he was like hey, how's it going? And I was like, stop, I need to talk to you. He was like what's wrong? I was like I need compensation. He was like I'm sorry, what do you mean? I was like no one free spot is not going to cut for the amount of work I've done. And he said said, what do you want? I said I want to be in a skit. I said, and I don't want to be some dumb village idiot, I want to be in a skit. And he was like do you want to be in Jack and the Beanstalk? I was like do I get to be the big bad wolf? He was like or the Jacks? It's story of the Jacks, I can't remember. I said I want to be the big bad wolf. He was like are you going to carry the bat? And I was like yes.
Speaker 3:And you did it, I did it. I remember that it was bucket list. That is so great.
Speaker 4:It was so good.
Speaker 3:Man, that's so fun.
Speaker 4:Yeah, but since then they have communicated really well with the group leaders that come and said hey, we have a nurse here available for X, Y, Z, but if you can take care of the first aid type things, if you can take care of the little things as much as possible, there are 600 of y'all and one nurse.
Speaker 3:Yeah, there's 620 students, 630 students and leaders and then 200 staff. For context, andy's meal prep is for 900 people, so we feed 900 people three times a day and there's one nurse one nurse, but typically mornings are real quiet, real calm.
Speaker 4:Before everybody goes to wreck. There's a little bit of an uptick and they're like hey, I'm going down the river, can you cover this wound? Am I good to get on the river? I've got a fever. Do you think I should go lay down today, or can I go on my rec and then after rec there's a good little increase.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, boo-boos, bumps and breezes, bumps and breezes come back in, yeah boo-boos, bumps and breezes, bumps and breezes come back in.
Speaker 4:Hey, I don't feel real good. I probably didn't drink anything all day long, or I'm a homeschool kid and I had my first Baja Blast this week and I feel real jittery.
Speaker 3:You'll see those in the afternoon. Is that a common call then? Like dehydration, They've just been drinking energy drinks and junk.
Speaker 4:It's those homeschool kids.
Speaker 3:Really that Drinking, energy drinks and junk, it's those homeschool kids? They just Really that's who it predominantly is?
Speaker 4:No, because you're a homeschool mom. I was. Yeah, we've plugged into public school now, but yeah, so kids that just come and they're not usually not used to that freedom they're not used to double shot espressos from starbucks, and yeah, they take full advantage and that's fine just just for a week, take some increase, some gatorade through dinner and you'll be fine yeah, if they would drink.
Speaker 3:We try to tell our kids drink for every one of those you drink. Just drink a cup of water.
Speaker 4:Drink some water 16 ounce cup of water.
Speaker 3:Drink some water.
Speaker 4:16 ounce cup of water. Um, I've had a couple of good injuries over the years. We had a pretty good uh ankle fracture on the basketball court last year. Oh, it was a good one.
Speaker 3:Like had to go get cast like a soft cast till they go home. Go to an orthopedic, yeah, yep.
Speaker 4:But he wasn't going home. Yep, but he wasn't going home he stayed. He was like no, I think it was like Wednesday, and he was like no, I'm not going home. I was like, dude, that's pretty rough. Did they give you pain pills at least? And I think y'all just used the gator and just drove him around the rest of the week. That's funny.
Speaker 3:I love having nurses here like you that are moms, which almost all of them are. We have one guy that comes. He's a bivocational pastor and a nurse, but he's a dad to a boy and so these kids don't get coddled when they go see the nurse which I like Yesterday we were talking about. I'm a little bit gentle with the girls, but if a boy shows up it's like suck it up.
Speaker 4:My kids hate that I'm a nurse, because I'm not a clinic nurse, I'm an ER nurse.
Speaker 3:And so I'm like it's not impressive. I wanted to ask you that it's um, before we get into your story, which is what this episode's really going to be about, and that we've already talked about, this story's going in the no sanity book. No sanity stories is going to be awesome, um, but you're a trauma nurse. Yeah, what I mean? Gunshot wounds, motorcycle crashes you ever see somebody that's had their head knocked off?
Speaker 4:Blown off.
Speaker 3:Blown off, Dang Missing limbs like disemboweled. That's the world you live in.
Speaker 4:I don't think I've ever seen anybody disemboweled.
Speaker 3:Okay, bucket list for a trauma nurse right there. Yeah, you just get. I know that sounds crass, but most people listening to this are going to just be laughing right now, cause you just kinda you live in that world. I guess you get a veneer over you where it's like, okay, I gotta be compassionate to people, but I also got to just have a thick enough skin that I mean you'd lose your mind.
Speaker 4:Um, so we were. I work in the biggest ER in between Memphis and Nashville and so we really stabilize and ship out a lot. We service a lot of rural communities and we're the biggest hub. So everything comes to us and we have a pretty high crime rate in Jackson. In the last couple of years it's taken a toll on me. It's one thing to see grown adults who make bad choices and have the consequences, but when the children get in the line of fire I've seen some pediatric gunshot wounds over the last couple years that have it's really kind of you have to step back and say like can I remain here as a mom, compassionately, empathetically and professionally? I'm still there, I'm hanging in there, but it's. It's challenging in different ways I never imagined.
Speaker 3:Because there have to be. You know, it's like believers are the most compassionate people, or should be, people that are following Jesus, should have the most compassion for their fellow man. But with that comes it's hard to deal with, it's hard to see things, deal with things, and but that's exactly where we need Christians in those lines of work. That field of work whether it's trauma care, law enforcement, anything, emergency medical services, military those are the, those are the vocations where I want believers because they have an internal perspective.
Speaker 4:I could not do it. Without the people that I work with I I would have walked away a couple of years ago.
Speaker 3:Or any of them believers.
Speaker 4:Yeah, yeah, yeah. There's several believers that are there faithfully and there's a lot that aren't, but they're good nurses, but I love them all.
Speaker 3:Man yeah, it's like a brotherhood, sisterhood I would imagine in that world, more than if you're working Not that there's anything to demean this but like if you're a nurse with an orthopedic surgeon or something like that. It's just. I would think it wouldn't forge that same kind of bond.
Speaker 4:No, it doesn't.
Speaker 3:It's like being a combat medic, basically what you're doing oh, I can't.
Speaker 4:I can't say that we are. We are very blessed where I work.
Speaker 3:We have great ratios and I have great management and I love where I work so you come here and you just deal with a bunch of lunatic kids that drink too much red bull everybody's asked me this week.
Speaker 4:They're like, how's your week? And I'm like, as an er nurse, it's really boring from a standpoint of risk management. It's just like y'all want it to be.
Speaker 3:It's super chill, everything's great, got some bee stings and band-aids but, that's it so yeah, one nurse that was here that works with like you know what do you call the older people um geriatric? Yeah, like changes diapers and you know, with overseas the cna changing diapers and gives meds and like, yeah, it's a routine week for me, it's got the same kind of work yeah um I love these kids.
Speaker 4:They're fun, they're fun to plug in with and and just I don't know. I love here, I love being able to give back to it.
Speaker 3:Well, one day we're going to have to hire a nurse, so we'll let you know when that day comes.
Speaker 3:Keep me posted Put your name at the top of the list Sounds good. So yesterday I was talking with Alex, your husband, and we were just visiting and sitting out right outside of the metal building there at supper and when you walked by me and Alex probably been talking an hour 45 minutes, something like that, and so you came over and then you told me a story. You told me your story which, like just blew my mind and I've been talking to you for five years as you've been coming around and you've alluded to it, but it's the first time we got in one place at one time looking at each other, and you told me the story. I just want to walk through that story for our listeners because it is a no sanity story.
Speaker 3:I got emotional last night when I got done with y'all, I went for a walk. I didn't go to worship service last night. It's the first one I've missed all summer. Rob was speaking. I was like man, I'm tapped out. I've had a heavy two weeks as far as just ministry. You just kind of got to step away. Sometimes. I was like I need to go for a walk because at 10, I was going to meet up with some youth pastors. So this was at like 8 because I left that conversation. We all got some supper. Went for a walk. I've got a spot in the creek way up on the family our family owns land that is adjacent to swall went up there. I'll get in the creek, sit about to my armpits. Just sit there, cool down, stop sweating, and I keep bar soap on a rock up there, you know there you go and uh.
Speaker 3:So took me a little creek bath and got out and and sat in red for about an hour and uh had a cup of coffee. But I got emotional, thinking about, like your story is why we exist and it's. I can remember. I can remember having this vision from the lord, not like a I went into ausion, but like just a daydream of there are going to be people whose lives are changed here, who then generations of that family are going to be impacted by this ministry, and that's your story. So let's just get into it.
Speaker 4:Okay. So my story is why I tell everybody like, snowbird is not just a church camp. Snowbird is a resource for young people. It is, and for me personally it was. It was a pillar. It was a lighthouse that I could look to in a storm that I it was a pillar on a hill that I was able to look towards, uh, and reach out to when I found myself in a mess. Um, I had come to Snowbird in high school in 04 and 06, um fell in love with it like a traditional camp kid, would. I just loved the fun, I loved the expositional teaching. It stuck with me. It was good, but each time I would go back home didn't have a lot of parental guidance at home, and so I, even though I was a believer, I knew right from wrong. I knew that I was walking down a path that was not honoring the Lord, but it was honoring my flesh. Uh, down a path that was not honoring the Lord, but it was honoring my flesh.
Speaker 4:Um, I had a boyfriend that I wasn't um seeking to honor the Lord with, but I just you know, was trying to fill a void with, because I Kentucky that fall of 2006 and was pregnant and I talked to my family about it my sister, my brother-in-law they're solid Christians. He was actually right close to me.
Speaker 4:He was in Louisville at Southern Seminary. Whenever I was in Lexington at UK my freshman year so they were close to me drove over, shared the news with them and they were like we love you, we're here for you. What does his family say? What are they thinking now that y'all are expecting? I said, well, they said we got to get married and my sister and brother-in-law were both just like hang on, like, before you rush into any decisions, you need to find some unbiased wisdom. You need to find someone who you respect biblically, that doesn't know you, doesn't know him, that can speak to it and just give you sound biblical advice.
Speaker 4:And I was like I got to email Snowbird, so I shot you an email. I got an email, snowbird, so I shot you an email. I bet you I didn't even get up and walk away from the computer. I got an email back so fast, said this is my phone number, I'm free right now if you can talk. And basically in the email I had just said hey, I found myself in need of prayer and some wisdom, if there's anybody there who can just spare a minute to give me some biblical advice. I have found myself 17, 18, I was 18 at the time pregnant and just needed to. Needed to know which direction to go.
Speaker 3:I was sitting in that chair right there. That's crazy.
Speaker 4:So in my mind I knew that you were in this lower level of the coop because I called you and we're chit-chatting. You didn't have great cell phone reception and you said hang on, I'm going to climb out this window real quick so I have better reception. You climb out the window and I can hear you. You're like, oh hey, there's my family. They're walking past and I can hear Tucker yap at you and say, hey, fathead.
Speaker 3:He would have been like four.
Speaker 4:He was little, and so I just I knew I was talking to someone that I could trust, someone who was already a parent, who is already faithful to his family, to the word in ministry. I had so much faith in you. First thing you said to me was congratulations, you're going to be a mom, and that is just the greatest blessing. Secondly, are you still shacking up with him?
Speaker 1:At which point I wanted to die.
Speaker 4:I wanted to crawl under a rock and be like what have I done? But I had to answer truthfully. I was like I, I'm not living right, um. Luckily there's eight hours difference between he and I right now, so you know I'm at college and he was you just didn't, he was, you just didn't shirk away from. Let's get some things in line right first, first and foremost, like physically safe, do right, make better choices.
Speaker 4:Secondly, like let's address the heart issue of this and how, um, let's get you back on path you told me you know, we talked and prayed for a little while and you basically told me like you have two choices Like you can continue to honor your flesh and and that might be a struggle Like it's going to be a struggle or you can slow down, seek the Lord and hold off on getting married. If marriage is the right path, it'll be there.
Speaker 4:But right now, you've got to focus on getting your heart right with the Lord so that you can be the best mom to this child. I took that to heart and I said you know what? I am going to wait. Let's not rush into getting married. If we're meant to get married, that'll still be there, but let's just focus on writing our hearts with the Lord. Jb just showed up.
Speaker 3:Have a seat, come on in.
Speaker 4:Let's write our hearts with the Lord and seek him instead of seeking one another and let's hold off on getting married. And it was like the Lord honored that decision to pursue him and not pursue like our relationship as priority. And it was like the longer that I pursued the Lord and sought scripture and righted my heart, it was like the blinders came off and I saw just the red flags that were so obvious. Substance abuse didn't have a heart, for the gospel wasn't interested in all at writing his heart with the Lord and the Lord he protected me and he just covered me in so much grace in that season.
Speaker 3:Did you stay in Lexington?
Speaker 4:I finished my semester at UK. I knocked out a ton of credits that first semester and then I, my sister and brother-in-law moved to Jackson. He got a job at Union and they said why don't you move with us? Come live with us and we'll help you through that first year, make sure you get back into college, finish your degree and we'll make sure you get steady on your feet. And I think in the back of their mind they also not in the back of their mind, in the front of their mind. They wanted to be a protector for both of us, because I think they saw her biological dad's true character.
Speaker 3:And where was he?
Speaker 4:He was still in Millington. That's where I'd met him. We were at the same church.
Speaker 3:Um, we had both been campers here, uh, at Snowbird, and he passed away not long after the baby was born.
Speaker 4:Oh no, he. We officially ended our relationship um a month or two after she was born, um, but I did try and keep in touch and let him be part of her life, like still see her um, but I was very cautious about it. Um, there there were all the signs of substance abuse um, and while I could never confirm it, um, we ended up going through a legal process with him. He wanted visitation. I just simply asked if you're going to do visitation. I just asked for a clean drug test. He was like, yeah, sure, no problem. And he never saw her again after she was seven months old. But he did not die until 2022.
Speaker 3:Oh, okay.
Speaker 4:He just recently died.
Speaker 3:That was recent Okay, I have my timeline off, yeah, but. But never interacted with her during those years.
Speaker 4:No, we um. I ended up finishing my nursing degree at Jackson state and graduated. I met Alex that first year that I worked there. Um, we got married. He adopted Maddie the next year, Um, and he, he came to depositions and like wouldn't interact with attorneys at all. He just wanted to address me and he was like I've messed up, I'm sorry, Like I need another chance. And I was like she's five, Like you've had five years of a chance, but no, he didn't interact with her at all.
Speaker 3:Let's talk about her.
Speaker 4:Oh, Maddie. So, maddie, works at SWO, so full circle. As full circle as it gets yeah, so you counseled me, prayed over her when I was pregnant with her.
Speaker 4:And then she hit sixth grade and our poor youth minister. I worried that man to I was like you have to take our youth group to Snowbird, it's not an option. I was like you have to. And he was like man, I don't know. He was like it's, it's a long way, it's really expensive. I was like no, you don't understand Like it has to happen. I worried the mess out of him, talked him into it Um, we bring them here. I introduced her to you. She would have been in sixth grade and she fell in love with it. She came sixth grade, seventh grade, eighth grade. I don't know how many years she came. She came a lot of years. She fell in love with it. She applied for Element and did that last summer and she's all in, she gets it, she loves this ministry, she sees the benefit that it is and she applied for summer staff. This summer she's doing SMO, working with groups, and then she applied for internship and is going to stay on.
Speaker 3:And I got this from her yesterday. She's in the thick of it. This is going to be a little bit cryptic because I want to protect the people that she's ministering to. Hey, it's Maddie. I'm with blank from blank church. Uh, we've been talking and she really needs to talk to you. So just a cool glimpse of a text between me and Maddie where we're doing ministry together, she's with this person who is in need of some counsel that she feels like she needs to bring me into, or you know, sometimes it or sometimes it might be they bring Nikki or Rob or JB.
Speaker 3:The point being how cool that me and Maddie are doing ministry together.
Speaker 4:You've prayed for her since before she was born.
Speaker 3:Crazy.
Speaker 4:It makes my heart swell just to see her here growing and doing the Lord's work, and I've had such a heart for this ministry for so long and I think the greatest gift that the Lord could give me was to see my kids serving in it. There's nothing better than seeing your kids be faithful and serve.
Speaker 3:I got pretty emotional after she told me the story. Yesterday I started connecting dots because I just hadn't connected the dots because it was 19 years ago. I didn't go to service last night. I just went for an hour. I just went for I think I told you this for an hour. I just sat and prayed and meditated on scripture and reflected on God's faithfulness and saying sort of prayer that you know I can think of. I mean years of praying that we would have multi-generational ministry, and not just multi-generational ministry from us investing in people, but multi-generational ministry people serving here. And it's happening, you know. And Maddie's a cool picture of that.
Speaker 3:What a story, man. Yeah, this story is going to be in the book no sanity stories. This is a no sanity story because it doesn't make sense According to the world's wisdom. The world would have said either get an abortion That'd have been choice Number one. Um got to get married, that was choice number two or three. And the other one would have been uh, just, you're an independent woman, you just got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get on. Have been you're an independent woman, you just got to pull yourself up by your bootstraps and get on. And what that typically turns into is codependency on the system, and you become a victim of the system, where now you're propped up by government handout and you don't pursue what God's gifted you and called you to do.
Speaker 4:It cripples, it does it cripples a lot of situations.
Speaker 3:And you know it's there for a reason and the church has, you know, God always called. He called Israel to do this, to take care of people that are in crisis, but not to enable further crisis in the Lord's faithfulness in your life and in the Lord's faithfulness in your life and in Maddie's life. And Maddie's got two little brothers, yes, and they're growing up, coming to school. They're 11 and 8.
Speaker 4:Jace- Jace is 11 and Grayson is 8. Jace is quiet and cautious and kind of stands back and takes it in. Grayson is both feet in, just barrels in. Yeah, he is good and dehydrated this week because he's had nothing but Pepsi, baja Blast and Airhead Extremes.
Speaker 1:And Gaga and Gaga and Gaga Ball and Gaga. Ball.
Speaker 4:Oh my gosh, I've given more Band-Aids to my child than I have anybody else all week long.
Speaker 3:Have you had to deal with Moses Holloway at all?
Speaker 4:Just a little. I think there was an incident with a water balloon yesterday, maybe.
Speaker 3:What did he do? Every week there's an incident or two. First off, he's a menace and he's a drama queen.
Speaker 4:I think he was actually being defended by a pack of Maybrees. Okay, there was a little bit of a not of a tussle, but it's like Lord of the Flies down there. I love them.
Speaker 3:Around the Gaga Pit and the creek. I love them, everybody that hangs out there during the day are like middle schoolers, and then the Mabrys and Moe and there's a gang. You know a lot of snowboard kids are middle schoolers.
Speaker 4:There's so much fun.
Speaker 3:So Tuck texted me the other night and says and I was here at camp, I was meeting with a youth pastor and Tuck texted me and said he said Mo is holding his head moaning in pain like he's concussed, saying he needs some pain meds. And then it's like a pause. And then he texts again and says he skimped one knuckle playing gaga ball. That's what's triggered, caused all this. And Tuck said he's like, come on, it's time to go home, you need to go bed that's all it is and they're driving home and tuck said mo's like over.
Speaker 3:I mean, this kid is not six, you know, he's 12 years old and he's curled up in the, in the fetal position which the lord only knows. What has he eaten? That day. Oh, what has he? Has he drunk any water? He's curled up in the fetal position and he's holding, holding this finger up, and he's holding his side, like this moaning saying mama would give me pain, man, mama she's in combat asking for morphine.
Speaker 4:No, my kids don't come to me for anything. Grayson had Wednesday. He ate the marshmallows out of a Lucky Charms bowl Just the marshmallows. He had a handful of tater tots and then that night at dinner he crashed. He just started sobbing and he had had like two Pepsis that day. Maddie at one point came up and just dumped it out. She was like no more, mom's not making good choices, she's tired, she's doing all this other stuff, she's not paying attention to how much caffeine you've had. He lost it. We skipped him. Alex took him home, they skipped evening service and he fell asleep at 7.20. We had to wake him up at 7 the next morning like he slept 12 hours and was done.
Speaker 3:It had high fructose corn syrup coursing through those veins. His insulin levels were through the roof. Yeah, mo, when Tuck got Mo home right after on the way home, when he said mama will give me pain meds, you know which is not true she just said suck it up and go to bed. You know which is exactly what happened. Got home and was out in about nine minutes.
Speaker 4:Yeah, they just need a nap.
Speaker 3:Well, thanks for everything you do for SWO. You have more than contributed your share since COVID, five years. This is your sixth summer.
Speaker 4:This is my sixth summer, that's wild.
Speaker 4:Thanks for letting me Like I, really like. I tell everybody, like, thanks for letting me Like. I, really like. I tell everybody like it's an honor to be able to give back. Even if it's just band-aids and you know it, just it fills my cup to be able to to be even a small part and give back to a ministry that has has come alongside me through not just that storm Like that was my first and that was my biggest, but just being able to listen to your faithful teaching and just diligence to the word has meant so much. So to give back is the best. It's awesome. We ain't going nowhere. I might die tomorrow, is it's?
Speaker 3:the best. It's awesome we ain't going nowhere. I might die tomorrow, but we is things here to stay. I'm so glad. I mean going nowhere for generations to come. It's awesome See what the roots the Lord's put down, so thanks.
Speaker 1:Thank you guys so much for tuning in this week. Um, I just listened back to my intro for tuning in this week. I just listened back to my intro. It sounds like I smoke a pack a day of cigarettes, so please excuse my hoarse voice. I've got the camp crud.
Speaker 1:But so grateful that Hannah was able to come on and just share her story. Man, it's been so cool to just hear all these people's testimonies and stories and how the Lord has worked through their lives and use Snowbird as a tool for his kingdom. It's always so humbling for me to just sit in and listen and hear those things. It's awesome. And so, yeah, thank you guys so much for tuning in. I hope you guys enjoyed. Like I said before, I hope you guys saw some awesome fireworks and ate some good food and rested well and we're just able to reflect the blessing it is to live in America, to live in a free country. I was praying about it this morning Lord, just keep your hand over America, keep blessing America. But yeah, I hope you guys enjoyed and we'll see you next week on. No Sanity Required. Thanks for listening to. No Sanity Required.
