Sister Abbey Horrocks

Family. This week has been quite the week. A lot of emotions. A lot of thought. A lot of a lot of things. 1- I am so homesick. Like super homesick. I went from only crying in the shower to crying all the time haha. We were at dinner at a members house and her friends asked if i was homesick and i could not choke back the tears haha. I have cried at 3 members houses so far and at one investigators house. That is cool. But i got a blessing from my branch president and he blessed me that I would know that while my family at home loves me so much, and while i am so lucky to have a family that i miss, now is not their time. It is my branches time to be my family and love me, but more importantly it is my time to rely on my brother who perfectly knows how to help me. I am grateful to have Jesus Christ in my life. I love to read my scriptures about him. I do not even drink water during personal study because I do not want to waste any time getting closer to him. It is crazy how i feel lik...

Hei Hei! Finally arrived in norway and it has been so fun. The country is BEAUTIFUL. The people are so awesome. The language is amazing. The food is delicious. Everything is a dream. I am definitely in the most beautiful mission. But to break it down. 1- My concussion made the plane flights killer, but luckily Elsdte Garlick stayed up and played tic tac toe with me for 10 hours haha. But it has not really bugged me since so I consider myself blessed. Just one baby migraine so far so it is a good time. 2- My area is beautiful. It is surrounded by fjords so there are bridges everywhere and it smells like the sea. The city is like one long strip and it is fun to kontakt on it. Everyone shops and shops and shops. The dialect here is beautiful. It is hard to learn norwegian in it because it is so heavy, but the Ward Mission Leader told me that he would raise me Haugesensk so I do not speak ugly eastern norwegian haha. I am not mad. I love it. It was funny though because when I spoke...

Hyggelig å treffe deg! My last week in the MTC has been nothing but a dream. I am obsessed with it and so sad to leave. (also so incredibly excited to leave too though) We will go in order of not spiritual to spiritual. 1- In volleyball yesterday Eldste Lee (who plays club volleyball) spiked the volleyball and it hit me directly on my adams apple. It hurt so bad lol I did not cry though. I had to look tough. But I got super dizzy and junk. I was going to go talk to someone about it but another sister got hit in the face and got a concussion so I did not want to be a copycat lmao. Also I ended up playing on a court with all Samoan Elders who only speak samoan so everytime I would say something they would all just copycat whatever I said. It was pretty funny. I enjoyed it a lot. 2- This morning I went to do laundry right after I showered and an Elder from my zone came up to me and said, ¨So are you going to give me your email or am I going to have to steal it from ya...

woohoo one week closer till norway!! Jeg er så spente for norge! Jeg tenke at Norge skall være kjempe flott. Og jeg kan ikke vente å snakke med norfolk fordi jeg har mye kjærlighet for dem. lol i cannot think of anything else to say. not a ton of things happened this week, but it was still fun! I am obsessed w my mission. 1-We were teaching Erelend (the investigator(brother leighton) that made us cry) again and we were teaching him about the book of mormon/holy ghost and he told us that he finished the book of mormon and prayed but didn't get an answer but as soon as he said amen his friend called him and told him he should read the book of mormon again and slower (since he was reading like 50 pages a day) and see what god would have him learn. We told him that that was an answer to his prayer. but he said he didn't want to pray again because he felt like an idiot since god did not answer him with the answer he was expecting. But he shared a scripture from the bom that t...