Reasons it is good:
-Get to see you
-Get to see Ryno off
-Great things ahead of me
-Get to see you
-Don't have to be rejected anymore (at least not in a missionary sense)
-Weight off my shoulders
Reasons it is bad:
-Weight off my shoulders is the mantle of a missionary. Not ready to lose that yet
-Don't get to have the opportunity to be rejected anymore
-Have to face y'all and hope that y'all are as proud of me as I would like
-BIG things ahead of me, not ready to adult yet
The two options that are before me are
1)Go home
and
2)Stay here
Obviously it really isn't a choice that I can make since it really isn't in my hands, but it would be nice if there was a third option
3)Stay here AND get to see all of you and do all that I want to do with y'all
But unfortunately that option doesn't exist, so instead I am faced with the reality that option 1 is quickly coming.
Because of that I have felt like an elephant is sitting on my chest this whole week. Lots of fun. Sister Spencer tries her hardest to help me, but what can you do when your companion suddenly is uncontrollably laughing on the floor and can't stop because she is literally losing her mind? Not much. 
Other than the increasing number of breakdowns, this week has contained the following:
-Moving a potential investigator named Jerrie. We met her tracting and she said she was in need of help moving stuff from her house to a storage unit behind her house since she is disabled. Sounded easy enough so we brought it up to the ward council and enlisted the help of the elders quorum and some of the young men. We set it up for Wednesday evening at 6. Tuesday evening Jerrie texts us and says she will meet us at the storage place 3 miles up the street. Turns out the "couple boxes" that were "in her house" were actually LOTS of boxes in a storage unit 3 miles up the road. Luckily we had 2 trucks, a van, two compact cars, with 3 grown men, two Elders, two Sisters, and 2 young men to transport the stuff. Even with that it took us three hours and 4 trips back and forth to get it all and move it into the storage shed in her backyard. The experience was enhanced by Jerrie's occasional (alright constant) nagging about where everything went. Needless to say, by the end of those long three hours, everyone involved was ready to bail and never volunteer again. 
One guy from the other ward was getting pretty sassy and fiesty by the end. Jerrie and him seemed to be having a bit of an unspoken competition of who could be sassiest. Lots of fun! It was made better by the surprised looks from Jerrie and the men as I lifted boxes and carried things. The guy from the other ward came to grab a box from me to be nice, and when he took it he just looked and said "wow sister! You're strong!" Hahah. 
-Teaching Tasha. We set her with a baptismal date (July 29th) and are working to help her be ready. We also want to involve her husband Tim, who happens to be a Jehovah's Witness, and their 3 sons, Trey, Kendall, and Landin. Slowly the three of us, SS Tasha and I, are working on them. Tasha is really an amazing person! She has been searching for the truth for a while and is beginning to notice that we just might have it. God is working with her.
-Trying to contact Cassie. She is the daughter of a less active member that lives in Timbuktu, well they actually live in Princeton, but is might as well be Timbuktu because it takes a whole day's worth of miles to get out there and back. We taught Cassie the Restoration the second day SS was here...and haven't been able to meet with her since. We have tried texting, calling, and going out there, all to no avail. We went out with Kaitlin Hawkins, a recently returned missionary, but weren't able to see her. 
sad face.
-MyPlan. This week was about Self reliance. There was one part that made me smile because it said to contact your stake self reliance specialist once you get home to get assistance in making a plan for how you will be self reliant in the future, and that just so happens to be my father. Haha. Dad, you and I need to sit down when I get home.
This week is week 5, which means the section on dating and eternal marriage. Finna be fun!
-Finishing the New Testament. I started it on the 15th and read marking scriptures that talked about different things. I have colored tabs that I put in. Here is my system.
Orange- introspective question
Pink- example of righteousness
Yellow- warning
Green- commandment/blessing for obedience
Blue- interesting fact/idea
It was really cool to read it that way because now I can go back and say "I want to see what commandments there are in the NT." and all I have to do is look for a green tab. I am hoping it will be the great resource I want it to be. I also read the Book of Mormon in this manner last month.
-Traveling out to Benton. Benton is one of the areas contained in the Brownlee ward that doesn't get visited by the missionaries or anyone really because the members that live out there, with the exception of 3 or 4 families, are less active. We decided to go out there and contact the LAs and part member families. It turned out to be full of driving through a terrible storm. At one point we were driving down a road that turned into a dirt road. As I said, it had been raining REALLY hard so this dirt road was now a MUD road. SS had the foresight to say "If we go down here and get stuck, we don't have any cell service." That made me realize it probably wasn't the smartest idea to continue. So we decided to turn around. Luckily God was looking out for us because at that moment two things happened, we started getting bogged down in the mud and then the road came to a turn around point. We were able to glide and turn around and get out of there! It made for an interesting time as we turned back onto the main road and mud was flying out from our wheels! Hahah we looked like Hansel and Gretel. Everyone could tell were we had been because of the long trail of red mud behind us!
That is all for this week folks! I love you and can't wait to see you! Get ready for a very torn Sister Lindberg to run up to hug you, while she is also wishing she was back in the MJM with her new found friends. But I still love you, so I guess I will come home, no matter how hard it will be. 
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