This is My Story
by Tiffany Bohnstedt

Bees are buzzing, the grass is green and growing and all the baby cows are here. That along with the sweltering temperatures must mean it is summer time in Oklahoma. I know it is summer here in Agra at the Freedom farm. My name is Tiffany Bohnstedt, I am 26 years old and I have a 1 year old daughter. I am currently at the Freedom farm. Well, it is summer and it is hot.
This is the story of how I came to be at the Farm. Get ready....
    I grew up here in Oklahoma, mostly in Perry. That is where I graduated high school. Before I graduated, I was introduced to marijuana, alcohol, lying, skipping school, smoking cigarettes, and being just plain rebellious. I fell into the “cool kid” crowd at the end of my junior year, and never left them. Until I decided to anyways. One week after graduating, I moved into a house with “the love of my life”. We both had full time jobs but smoked marijuana on a daily basis, we drank often. During this time I did not have very much to do with my family, I missed them, but I was always too high to go visit. After two years of living with him, I moved out into my own place only to very soon start dating my drug dealer. After dating him for about a month we decided to move in together, which was where the biggest problems started to happen. We were fine at first, but then he had me hooked on speed, he was beating me, neither one of us were faithful, but I had all the dope I wanted. Which I believe is why I stayed. We were, as all dealers, busted. I bailed out and moved to Texas. That wasn’t the brightest idea I have ever had. I soon found the dope heads there and started doing exactly what I had done in Oklahoma. This time I was in a crowd that didn’t have the money to support their habits, so they stole things from people’s homes to get the money. Well of course the rush and excitement of that peaked my interest, so I did it too. Until the faithful day came, as it always seemed to, when we all got arrested. Over the next year I was in and out of jails, and seeing counselors, and trying to survive. Finally the state of Texas had enough of me and sent me to prison. Then I really didn’t care, no one else did, right? So I was sent to south Texas, near Waco. I spent the next three years locked up away from the rest of the world. I saw the tragedy of 9/11 on television in prison. I got out the following November and went back home, to Perry.

    Back at home I did well at first, I was faithful to report to my PO, and I had a full time job. I was only home from prison five months before I was pregnant. I kept working, but all the time not fulfilling my obligation to my parole officer to report monthly, I was already in violation. December rolled around and I had Jalyssa Mishel Bohnstedt, 7 pounds, 2oz., 21 inches long. The most beautiful thing I had ever seen in my life. Now she is almost two and I have been away from her for 8 months, because of bad decisions. I see her often here at the farm, which is a tremendous blessing. After having her I really stopped reporting to my PO and was just doing as I pleased. One day I got pulled over in my pickup with marijuana, and two drunk guys, and that was the straw that broke the camels back as they say. My parole officer sent me to a ministry in Perry and after failing a few drug tests, they recommended me to a residential treatment program. At first they sent me to a place in Missouri called Heartland. I didn’t like it, so I left. I was in Perry three days, and my PO was going to issue a warrant, so I called Jack, and scheduled an interview for the next day. I came and agreed to the program.

    I have been here since January and do not regret it for a minute. God has showed me things in my life I was afraid to deal with; he has delivered me from strongholds, and has taught me more than I ever thought I could know. He just wanted to be alone with me, and I needed to be alone with Him.

    I am building my family relationships back up, I am a more pleasant person, and I enjoy life. God has given me life, and life more abundant, and I am taking advantage of every moment I have.

    He pulled me out of the darkness and brought me to the light and I am thankful, I love the light, it is bright and beautiful. I want to encourage whoever is reading this to love life, live it to the fullest, and love the light.
 
 

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