My touch by the people in my life and God!

A few weeks ago, my church had a youth led service and the youth pastor was preaching. I was very touched by his sermon. He talked about how you have to trust God in things that come into your life that you are not ready for. One of the boys in my youth group read a testimony about the Christian influences that he has in his life and I am writing about the same thing.
In 4th- through half on sixth grade, I was homeschooled and my mom told me out of no-where. I was very shocked and upset with my mom because I felt like she didn’t want me to have any friends and I knew I wasn’t going to meet friends with being homeschooled. I had a few friends, but really the people I could lean on are in my family. In 2007, I went to Vermont twice and I could lean on my family back east and during the Christmas season of 07, I was able to realize that it’s ok to lean on people in your family. I grew really close with my Aunt Debbie!
In January of 08 my cousin Jeremy who is one of my major influences moved back to Lubbock, Texas after being in Kentucky with me for a year and a half. Then I was hurting for a very long time and felt like God took him from me! I was hoping he would come back that next summer and he didn’t! I was very upset! God had me wait to see him until spring break of last year! I waited for three and a half years!
Another place I get that kind of influence is from school. In 6th grade I went back to public school and I was very happy with that! My teacher from 6th grade has put some major influence on my life! She has taught me to not be afraid to get good grades! She has taught me to stand up for myself a little bit. Her name is Mrs. Miller. In 7th grade I met a woman who has changed my life and that woman is my language arts teacher from last year. Her name is Mrs. Mattingly. She taught me to conquer some major fears I had for a long time! One is to stand up for myself and the other one is to be able to talk to my teachers about my feelings without any problems with fear. She is the one who really taught me to stand up for myself.
I also have a friend who is the sweetest friend I ever had that is my age! That does not include my adult friends! We are in band together and we used to be in math together, but it was too hard for him so he got moved in to a lower level math class! I was very upset that I cried in math the next day for about 20 minutes! The next day Dominic and I had our All-district auditions and while I was in my audition Dominic was talking to my parents and my mom told him that I was upset so when I came out he told me that he will always be my friend! I was very blessed. After my parents left we found out that he made it! We were jumping all around and we were very happy for him until we found out that I did not make it! He felt so bad for me and I did not want him to because he made a major accomplishment! He is a total true friend.
The next influence is my mom! I would not get through school if it wasn’t for my mom! She helps me so much with my homework and helps me solve my problems with kids! She is the greatest mom in the world.
The last two people on my influences list are my youth leaders! Ann has done so much for me! She has prayed for me and other people when I have asked her too! She also helps me through so many things. Joe has helped me to become a better friend and is helping me see God’s love for me!
All of these influences have helped me to realize that God put me in these people’s lives for a reason and he put them in my life for a reason!

My peom from 7th grade!

Me and My Dad Having a fight in Front of My Cousin Jeremy
Sittin’ in my livin’ room
My cousin and I having a good time
Stayin’ up till midnight or later
Sleeping in the living room
Next day everything changes
My dad and I start a fight
Then Jeremy was sent home with my mom
I got a lot worse with my anger and so it made my behavior worse
I tried to call my cousin to calm me down
My dad told me that I needed to calm down without Jeremy in the middle of everything
I was feeling like my dad didn’t love me anymore
I was finally able to call Jeremy
And he said to me “I appreciate that you changed
Your attitude
Now, I want to come back over
And I can
I am going to give you something when I get there”
The flamingo is what he gave me
It is special because he gave to me because I had changed my attitude and he wanted to
Recognize it
Jeremy is like my peacemaker when I do something wrong
I am very happy now
Everything changed that day and it ended very well
Our Relationship is not better though
Jeremy left for his home in January of 08
Our relationship got worse because I was going through a lot of sadness.
It was like I lost my life.
It was like an end to our lives
I know it wasn’t though
I am finally going to be able to see my cousin over spring break

My testimony I had to write for bible study in the fall of 09

Testimony of Hannah DeForrest
I have had problems with the lord for the past two and half years and I want to share them with you. I have wanted to see my cousin Jeremy for a long time. God has not said yes, but he has wait. I don’t want to wait anymore. Jeremy left Kentucky in January of 2008, but I have come to understand that when I get disappointed about not seeing Jeremy, that it’s really ok. It doesn’t mean that the lord is saying no.
The lord bringing Jeremy into my life has helped me to correct myself when I have done something wrong. Jeremy tells me how to fix it and try again. Jeremy knows by the look on my face when I’m just tempted or when I’m mad. He says things to encourage me so that I don’t do it.
God has made such an impact on my life through Jeremy! I thank the Lord for doing the things in my life that has changed my life. Jeremy is a leader and God took my leader away from me. Jeremy has led me to do a lot of things that I have never done before. Jeremy has led me into this small group. Jeremy has led me into band and so I’m in band this year! Sometimes I feel Jesus is not there for me when I need him. Jesus is a leader. For the past two and a half years, I have felt like the lord has not been there for me when I need him. I was homeschooled for 4th- half of 6th grade! When I started back to public school I was having some troubles being bullied. My teacher became my new leader and she helped me not to be bullied! She was the best teacher that I ever had it my whole entire life! In sixth grade I realized that the Lord had been there for me when I needed him. I’m in 7th grade now! I am more into the Lord than I used to be. I’m in a time where I really need the lord. I am having a really hard time making friends at school.
A few weeks after I wrote this testimony, things in my life really started to change and I realized that the lord wanted me to have a good year. I also realized that he wanted me to have Mrs. Mattingly, my English teacher for a reason, and that reason is that he wanted me to have a friend that is a teacher, and he wanted me to learn some things. Those lessons are shared below I learned so much from her that I can pass on to my friends, like not being afraid to tell when someone is being mean to me, and she encouraged me to read more than I did in 6th grade. I have learned a lesson from doing that and that lesson is what reading can do for your life. I can pass that on to my friend Jenna! It took me a whole quarter to learn the lesson to not be afraid to tell when someone is being mean to me! My teacher has taught me so much and that made me realized why I was on the eagles team at school this year. That reason is he wanted me to have the best teachers that I ever had and he also wanted be to have the best teachers because I’m autistic! Mrs. Mattingly is defiantly a wonderful teacher!!!!! It is not just the spiritual things that have made our relationship so well! We have had fun times together too! She has a wonderful sense of humor and that has made our relationship very well as well!!!!!! I thank the lord for bringing her into my life! She is best teacher I have had since first grade! That is six years since I have had a really good teacher and I thank the lord for knowing that I needed a teacher like that! In-fact she better than Mrs. Bakke, but I loved Mrs. Bakke and still do!!!!!!!! For example: I don’t think about Mrs. Bakke as much as I do Mrs. Mattingly during the summer!!!!!!!!! I thank the lord for bringer both those teachers into my life!!!!!! I had some problems with a few of the kids on my team this year and the lord brought me to Mrs. Mattingly so it can be taken care of As you can tell the lord got what he wanted and it changed my life! I still have problems with my dad, but I’m glad I have more people to talk to if I need to talk to them!

Faith Elizabeth Frego, Mackenzie Grace Frego, and their Ant Hannah

Faith Elizabeth Frego, Mackenzie Grace Frego, and their Ant Hannah
My Parents and I came to New York
To their house
And had a wonderful time
They warmed-up and they knew who we were
And we started to play with them
And couldn’t stop
And their ant Hannah had a wonderful time especially
I tickled them and made funny faces with them
And they laughed to no end
Faith has a new friend and that friend is her ant Hannah
Mackenzie loves me to, but she is more active and she likes to play
Instead of sitting on my lap all the time like Faith does!
I’m going to Vermont now and I miss my girls so much,
But I know that I will see them eventually!
They are coming to my house in Kentucky
And so I know that I will see them soon!
Then we went to get them then we went to Kentucky
I woke up with them every morning
It was like my life having fun
Then two weeks later we said good-bye
Then I took my grandmother home
My mom took the girls and their mom home
I will see them this summer!

My friends and I

My Friends and I
My teachers mean the world to me
They help me learn
And they help me when I’m down in the dumps and don’t want to learn
My friends help me not to be lonely
My friend Conner is my best friend
My friend Kahlan is my best friend
I don’t know what I’d do what without them but most of all
My mom is my life!
My Teacher Mrs. Mattingly is not just an educator to me
She is an inspiration to me
I have so many memories with her!

My Dream!

Lord, help me to wait patiently
Lord, help me to make my dream come true(x4)
Lord, help me surprise her right (x5)
Lord, help me accomplish my dream
I Love Mrs. Mattingly so Lord please help me to never lose her(x3)
I know my Dream will come true Thanks to My Lord(x4)
I know I will never lose her thanks to my Lord
I know the surprise will go right thanks to my Lord
I Know the Lord will help me wait patiently for my dream
I know my dream will come true thanks to my Lord
I know my lord will make my dream come true because he gave her to me

The Story of Mrs. Mattingly and I

I have thought a lot about my language arts teacher today and how I do not want to lose her. My mom has a teacher she used to have that has a modeo that says once a student always a student and that is true for the two of us because we are friends!!!! I will still be reading a lot next year because she encouraged me to and because I learned a life lesson that is what reading can do for your life and I hope I can teach my friend Jenna that lesson!! I will remember my teacher forever and I hope she knows that I will miss her very much!!!!!!! She has changed my life because I have my love for reading back and I have realized that it would be stupid of me to feel like I am not a good reader or writer ever again. I have a special place in my heart for her and even though I may not be living In Kentucky when I grow up I will still remember her! I will remember her until I die and when I come home to see my parents I may be able to see her!!!!!! I love her so much and she loves me to. We are so close that I am praying to see what the best thing is for me to do for my career and where he wants me to live. I have a feeling that he is telling me to live in Kentucky near my parents and to work at the middle school and live in New York in the summer times to work with Jenna!!!!! I may go live in New York while i a getting my teacher degree so that I can help Jenna get the Bakery Shop started. That s just in case Mrs. Mattingly is still working at the middle school when I get out of college. I am going to college for a total of 8 years, but I am getting my teacher degree first and then I am getting a music degree online instead with my cousin. So that means that in eleven years which that is including 8th grade I would be trying to get a job at the middle school. I will see what the lord wants me to do, but I do feel that he is telling me to do that. I hope I can do that without my friend Jenna getting mad. I want to teach Language arts because Mrs. Mattingly has taught me a lot of things emotionally that I want to teach other people especially the lesson I have learned about what reading can do for your life. Also I want to teach language arts so that I can encourage people to love to read just like Mrs. Mattingly has done for me. At the beginning of the school year we barely knew each other and through-out the year we became best friends!!!!!!!!!!!! She helped me to have a wonderful year and it came true!!! I had a wonderful year and I will miss her so much next year!!!! I already miss year and the year has been over for a day. Next year will not be the same without her and I am praying that the lord will help me to make our relationship grow! He did that with my friend Kahlan and that means he will probably do that with Mrs. Mattingly and I. I will defently do my part in that because it is very easy to do my part when it is compared my relationship with my father! I have not had a teacher as a friend since first grade. I would not have Mrs. Mattingly in my life if my family and I did not move to Lubbock and then to Kentucky. There are pros and cons to moving all over this country and that is a pro!!!!! A con is that i lost my cousin that i grew up with, but he is not dead, I just can't see him as often anymore. The end of year is finally over. The last day was yesterday and i am going to be sad for at least a couple weeks, but in the midst of that, I get to see my family in the north-east!!!!!! Mrs. Mattingly has changed a lot in me and I love that about her!!!!! She is the best teacher i have had in a long time!!!!!! I have not been this sad for the year to be over since second grade. I was very sad then because I was moving that summer!!!!!! I'm just glad I am not moving this summer and when we do move we will still be in Meade County!!!!!! Thank God!!!!!! Mrs. Mattingly is my best friend and I hope our relationship will grow!!!! I defiantly think it will even though I am not her student anymore!!!!!! I miss her so much already and it has only been a day!!! I will miss her all summer and I can't wait to see her again at the beginning of next year!!!! All the trips I am going on this summer will make the summer fly by because of the saying time flies when you’re having fun!!!!!! That is the story of Mrs. Mattingly and me. Written by her former student, Hannah DeForrest