Help! Quick question about text messages on cell phones

[ABEL]

I'm trying to figure out how to view my text messages on my Sprint cell phone. I go into the messages, I see who the text message is from, and I scroll down, and it's like it's only showing the first word of the message. Is there some sort of set up I have to do to view the text messages? I tried looking in the manual, but of course those things are hard to follow and it hardly said anything about the text messaging.

 

[ABEL]

hmmm I think it's working now....that was weird...the first two messages didn't show, but the last one did.