Latter-day Saint Life

First Missionaries from Brussels Attack Return to the United States

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We are so excited to hear these Elders are back home safe!

LDS missionary companions Elder Mason Wells and Elder Joseph Empey are back in Utah receiving care at University Hospital in Salt Lake City one week after they were injured seriously by two suicide bombs in the Brussels airport terrorist attack.

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Wells, 19, of Sandy, Utah, is in the hospital's Burn Trauma Intensive Care Unit. Doctors are performing skin grafts on his left ankle and a hand, according to family spokeswoman Jeanette Bennett.

Wells arrived in Utah on Monday and first was admitted to the hospital's intensive care unit before being transferred to the burn unit.

Lead image from Deseret News.
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