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and welcome today's heart-to-heart before you think I lost my mind I hope
you hear me out because what I'm about to say it's something that I really
believe strongly about and I really believe that I was just given this
revelation just today so I was getting a shower and I wasn't gonna videotape
today because this isn't the day for me to videotape every other day is when I
do my videotaping but this was something so profound I feel in my life that I
want to get this camera on and I want to share it right away so my title is it's
come to full circle and I can't believe it ended this way and I really believe
that so here it goes I'm just gonna share with you what I felt and what I
learned today about myself so I was getting a shower and I was really not
thinking a whole lot about things but I was thinking about my name change you
know mobile home living and I was thinking about that you know and
thinking about how I really had liked that name and I really feel like it
represents me as far as frugal living and coming from this lifestyle to this
lifestyle and the lessons I've learned and it just came - full circle for me
because I feel like God was telling me that this was all in his plan a few
people that watched me who don't know me are gonna really scoff at this idea but
those of you who know me and have been watching me you may agree with me I feel
like God has set up everything in motion for this day this time of my life
and let me share with you why mobile home living has always been in my life
but I've never lived in a mobile home most people know my story but a few
people that come on to my channel new which I'm getting quite a few new people
have no idea about the background of my life all they know is that I lived a
higher lifestyle than I do now but what they don't realize this mobile home
living has been in my life all my life my daddy made a living selling mobile
homes my daddy made a living having retirement mobile home parks it
all started what before I was born my daddy bought one
mobile home for $50 it was run down and him and my uncle my uncle was known to
be able to fix anything my uncle could turn anything into something beautiful
they took this mobile home and they flipped it in other words they fixed it
up resold it for $500 that started the legacy of my dad my dad in the area
which I was born is known as a legacy for having mobile home retirement parks
well this started and it just snowballed and snowball and snowballed
until my daddy had parks that were high-quality parks for ages 55 in order
when he think of a mobile home park you think of a trailer park that had
exclusive mobile home parks his parks were beautiful some of them had little
bridges with some of them had bridges around them and seating areas and
beautiful places beautiful immaculate but my whole life I always thought about
mobile home living and I always thought I didn't want to live in a mobile home I
tell that story all the time my daddy was a very fair landlord in fact his
mobile homes his rental units were not cheaper than anyone else in the area
because my dad was a very fair and just man my dad is a good Christian man a man
that has high integrity and treated people right but when my daddy started
making these retirement villages people came by the droves there would be long
waiting list of people 55 in order I remember their stories
I remember how most of them downgraded because they wanted something cheaper
where they didn't have as much expense in taxes I remember these things
my hubby when we married he was a farm boy and we lived on a farm and he said
one day that he would never mind living in a mobile home first thing I said to
him was are you kidding me I'm never gonna live in a mobile home even though
that's what paid my daddy's bills then daddy made an amazing living on it I had
that stereotype in my heart I'll be honest with you I did and as you know
Never Say Never and here you find me and an old in 1963 double-wide and you know
what it is amazing so my daddy always told me that there's a difference
between trailer parks and mobile home parks a trailer is a trailer that came
in on wheels and it actually has a foundation of wheels and that's what
it's called a trailer my daddy never called his parks trailer parks there
were mobile home parks because his mobile homes were actually the wheels
were taken off and they were put on a foundation just like mine but whether
it's a trailer or a mobile home to me it makes no difference it's what's in your
heart that matters and so here I am and it's come full circle I believe it with
all my heart because my daddy made it living with mobile homes and I believe
that I am sharing a ministry and sharing my life with people who are low-income
you know I believe that everything happens for a reason and I do know that
God knows everything he knew when I was married he knew when I was a child he
knew that some day I would be living in a mobile home pride comes before a fall
but you know what this is the best thing that has ever happened to me
I say that and so many times people don't understand it just be the best
thing that ever happened to you when you come from a house that had an in-ground
pool and new vehicles to living in a 1963 double-wide it is because it's the
lessons of the heart I've already changed my name this week homestead
Tessy mobile home living immediately my channel changed immediately people were
coming to me new people people have been following me a long time and they are so
excited I even had many people tell me I've
never seen anything like this Tessie you're doing something different
that it was God that put in my ear that small still voice to change my name one
day this week I was really thinking about things and through the last three
years I really thought about Homestead Tessie because I loved homesteading but
I'm not just homesteading you go to the homesteading channels and you understand
I don't have goats and sheep and I don't have animals other than chickens
I have a garden I do canning but I'm not really into the homesteading just
homesteading about brittle living I'm all about low income and turning that
into something positive you know it was said already that I'm not helping people
to better their lives as far as financially by being comfortable with
where they're at but let's face it in the world we live in there's going to be
some people that will always have a low income they will always have lack of
funds like other people I'm here to just promote you and just bless you and just
share with you you can't come from this and this and be happy I wouldn't want it
any other way I look back now and I think my word Tessie what have you
learned in your life I believe that God allowed these things to happen to me for
now for this season of my life I believe I have a calling on my heart a
calling on my life and my calling is to share with people of love and share with
people of a way of living that they may feel is forced upon them there are a lot
of people who choose to live this way who choose to live in a frugo
environment but let's face it there's a lot of people that feel depressed and
feel that they feel sad that they're living in this condition I want them to
find this video in my channel and have a whole new look on life living abundantly
it doesn't matter where you're living there are some rich people they have
loads and loads of money that are living abundantly I have a friend she's been
with me all these years on YouTube she lives in a bun
life she has probably everything she could want I believe she doesn't have to
sacrifice anything is monetary but she lives an abundant life and she's blessed
me in ways that have been tangible by just getting me canning jars through the
years and things like that you know it's not a rich versus poor as
far as there are abundant people in any class of society there are abundant
people we put stereotypes on people we put stereotypes on people yes it is
known that the more you have the less you help others in some people but at
funded life it doesn't matter we are all human it doesn't matter what we drive or
what we have I just am so excited because I really believe that God turned
my pride into something that I am able now to witness and to help others who
would have thought the one thing that I was boastful and proud the most was
where I've come from and look where I am now my whole life I didn't need anything
my parents were very frugal but my parents had anything they could desire
they could have went out and got anything they wanted I was classified in
that day as a rich kid but my parents didn't spend a lot my mom was extremely
frugal because they had that plain background my mom and my dad were dirt
poor when they were married my mom and my dad
remember scrimping and saving in order to provide for the children but by the
time they adopted me I never knew of that life we had everything we needed
but they never went extravagant in their life but yet I had that mentality that I
was the daughter of my mom and my dad and their name was known to the public
as being somebody who was better off than a lot of people look at me now
look at me now I'm happier now than I have ever been so I am homestead Tassie
mobile home living because I do live in a mobile home and it's not stereotyping
at all living in a mobile home it's just reaching out to a large public of people
there are so many people I did a poll and the poll was how many people in my
channel have lived in a mobile home or have lived in a mobile home it was
unanimous that the majority of the people have lived or live in a mobile
home I am taking people from here from here from here all over and we're
bringing them together and we're sharing ideas I've had some issues on my mobile
home with maintenance I've had so many people in my channel say Tessie I know
what you're talking about you can do this you can do this I'm reaching out
and you're reaching out to me I'm building a community my community is no
matter if you have a mobile home or not that's not what it's about it's about
what circumstances are you in today what do you want to do what do you want to
live your life do you want to live your life abundantly no matter what your tax
return says the tax return only tells you what you are for the US doesn't say
what you are for your heart I have many people on my channel that are well-off
they come to my channel because they like to hear things uplifting
they like to know when they reach my channel it's gonna be positive because
it's almost always positive that doesn't mean I don't share certain parts of my
life with people that doesn't mean that I don't share some struggles in my life
but you know what it always turns out at the end as a positive thing and it's a
thing that I'm learning and I'm growing and you all taught me I just really feel
passionate that this was all meant to be yes we choose our destiny that is
correct we choose the way we go yes we've made mistakes but God had his hand
in all of it and on my Sunday videos I will preach it
I will teach it I will share about my god
because that is who got me through one a time in my life where I didn't even want
to live anxiety a panic disorder took control of my life for two and a half
years I didn't want to get out of bed I had such strong emotions and such strong
physical problems in my life I was my heart would race I the public I was so
scared of going out in my public into the grocery store but God was there
through it all so a few of people from my Sunday said a little less preaching a
little more homesteading this is my channel on Sundays people don't need to
watch my Sunday videos if they become offended but God is the number one
person in my life and he will never ever be anything other than that so I am
passionate because when you're all alone in this world and you feel like nobody
understands you he's there God is there for you God is there he will help you
but you have to let him in I made a lot of mistakes in my life we've made a lot
of financial mistakes in our lives but you know what God put us here for a
reason right now and mobile-home living is it
and I'm here and I'm just sharing everyone because let's face it the young
generation the middle income people people 55 in order all of these people
have learned that they have to save their money people right now are out
living their savings people right now are out living the money they have saved
if you were a millionaire back in the 1970s you don't have that
much money anymore because the cost of health care you know my mama has been in
a nursing home for eight years and do you realize the kind of money that that
is taking every single year it is unbelievable unbelievable I wanted to
have my mama at home I wanted to have her at home but that wasn't something
that I could roll and so it was up to my siblings to
do that but I wanted to share with you no matter who you are you have got to
learn to save money for one reason or another so it's not just mobile home
living it's living abundantly and saving your money and I do believe the circle
has come full for me I really believe it I would never in my wildest dreams even
five years ago dream that this would be dream that my channel would be about
mobile home living dream that I would get on public on the camera dream that I
would have things like this not in my wildest dreams but God's dreams and
God's vision is always so much bigger than our own we can only see like this
but God sees like this and I never would have envisioned three years ago but God
would do in my life today and for that I am so deeply so deeply humbled thank you
guys for watching and like I always say you can count on it
you'll see me tomorrow
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