and for his spirit of humility. [ applause ] >> i want to thank mama hughous, cissy, for your -- just willingness to forget about everything else and have this service here. that took a lot of courage [ applause ] and because of that, you brought the world to church today. i want to give honor to all of the bishops and pastors and folk that have come. i want to assure you that i won't be that long, but i've been waiting on y'all all day. so -- i want to make a couple of disclaimers. one, that most of this homily will be done in english, but old habits are hard to break, so if you hear language you don't understand, don't worry about it, because i wasn't talking to you no how. i was hoping that cece would have been singing before -- i'm going to do something, mama houston, if that's okay. you know, we hear a lot about bebe and cece. you know, and you would actually believe that bebe and cece knew nippy first. that's not the case. just like you think bebe knew whitney -- i mean -- that wasn't the case. i'm going to ask my twin brother, carvin to come. i'm going to ask bebe and cece to c