There is a small town near the airport here in Trondheim
called "Hell." The word
"hell" in Norwegian means "to pour".
The
name Hell stems from the Old Norse word hellir, which means “overhang” or
“cliff cave”. It has a more used homonym in modern Norwegian that means “luck”.
The Old Norse word Hel is the same as today's English Hell, and as a proper
noun, Hel was the ruler of Hel. In modern Norwegian the word for hell is
helvete – Wikipedia
Read more about Hell here.
Notice that there is even a phone booth to make that last desperate call home.
However, we like to visit with the arriving and departing
missionaries to get their passports stamped (as we have done) in the local post
office; making it official that we have been to Hell.
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| Elders Rogers, Naylor, Cribbs, Welch |
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| Sister Wheelwright's companion that day was Sister Naylor |
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| Elder Stephenson (from Meridian) and Elder Cribbs |
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| Elders Brooks and Baldwin |
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We have known Elder Baldwin when he was
in Kristiansund before he arrived here in Trondheim |
And another challenge at the Hell Train Station is to defy gravity!
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| Elder Cribbs |
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| Elder Brooks |
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| Elder Welch |
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| Elder Baldwin |
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