Brussels Belgium Missionaries : Videos and News

Members we know in Belgium have been an awesome support to the 4 missionaries and their families.

We all appreciate knowing more about these faithful missionaries.



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An official update from the Chad Wells andKymberly Snowden Wells family:
Mason Wells has flown back to Utah and is receiving top-notch medical care. He has a broken heel on his left foot (same foot with the ruptured Achilles) and is undergoing skin grafts and other procedures on his foot and hand. He’s waiting to hear about future surgeries. Mason had a wonderful reunion with his 17-year-old brother, Colby, and looks forward to seeing his three other siblings soon. His 19 months of LDS missionary service came to a halt with the blast in the Brussels airport on March 22. Since arriving in Salt Lake City, Mason has been released as a full-time missionary, which his family describes as “a tearful, wonderful, tender, bittersweet experience.” Although Mason cannot have visitors, he is grateful for the prayers he can tangibly feel from both loved ones and strangers. The Wells family finds great comfort in being back home where they can heal and move forward with increased faith in a loving God.

BRUSSELS -- Parents of a Utah missionary hurt in the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22 shared their thoughts after seeing their son in the hospital. Elder Joseph Empey, 20, is wrapped in bandages as he recovers from burns and surgery.But through the gauze dressings, and his wounds, the Empey family said what struck them the most about seeing their son was, "His eyes and his smile."“He's got bandages all around his face, but he's got these pretty blue eyes,” said Amber Empey, Joseph's mother. “He was thankful and excited to see us."His father, Court Empey, said despite the injuries, their son's countenance still shines through.“You could see through all the burns and all of his injuries, that it’s still his same soul and heart in there," he said.The couple flew from Santa Clara, Utah to Belgium after Tuesday’s terrorist bombing in Brussels that nearly killed Elder Empey. He was at the airport check in, where the bomb went off.Elder Empey has relived those moments to his parents.  "It was horrifying what he went through,” Court Empey said. “He remembers the blast. It knocked him out. He was very scared and hiding, and then he went into helping those around him, looking for his three missionary colleagues to help them."

Elder Empey told his parents: “‘I don't understand it, I just know that there's so much more good and love in the world that it'll always win,’" Court Empey said, quoting his son.The couple said his brothers and sisters are anxious to see him heal and return home. Elder Empey was just a few months shy of finishing his mission when he got caught in the blast."He's the oldest of five kids, and he’s just been my buddy since he was born,” Amber Empey said, tearfully. “From the time he was a little boy he's just stepped up and taken care of all of us. He's responsible, and kind, and loving."

The family knows they have a long road ahead.“He's going to need some time to rehabilitate and heal on the outside, and I'm sure with his emotions as well," Court Empey said.But through the second degree burns, Elder Empey appears to show a thumbs up while he smiles for a photo and forges forward in his recovery. Elder Empey is now up and walking.  

http://fox13now.com/2016/03/27/parents-of-lds-missionary-wounded-in-brussels-attack-discusses-his-recovery/

LEHI, Utah -- The wife and son of Elder Richard Norby, a 66-year-old LDS missionary from Lehi injured in the terror attacks in Brussels, gave an interview Saturday and spoke about the moments they learned their loved one was hurt.   Norby is serving a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and was at the airport when the attack occurred. Shortly after the explosion that left 31 people dead, Pamela Norby, Richard’s wife, received a phone call.   'He said, ‘Pam’, and as soon as he said my name, I knew that something was wrong,” Pamela Norby said.  She said she could hear a commotion in the background.  “He said, ‘There’s been an explosion,’ I said, ‘Are you OK?’  and he said, 'I have a broken leg and I have burns on my face,'" she said.   Pamela then asked her husband about the whereabouts of the other missionaries he was with.  “He said, ‘I don’t know’ and my heart just sank, because we’re so close to these missionaries, we love them,” she said.

Pamela said her husband is still in a medically induced coma. His son Jason said it took a while for the news to settle in. “About a day and a half before I really stopped to think that, someone instigated this, someone did this, and I processed that for a moment and I moved on, I moved back to focusing on my father and the other missionaries,” he said.

Jason and Pamela say beyond their own family and their extended family of missionaries, they are focusing on the people who lost loved ones and are praying their own loved one will soon return to health. Pamela Norby described the burns on her husband’s body as being primarily second-degree burns, which she said is good news because it means most of the wounds will not require skin grafts

Norby Interview is available at KSL 5 TV

https://www.facebook.com/ksltv/videos/10154348693998676/

or on Fox News :http://fox13now.com/2016/03/26/wife-of-lds-missionary-wounded-in-brussels-recounts-husbands-phone-call-after-explosion/

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Interview with Sister Clain, who is headed out to OUR HOME MISSION, Cleveland OHIO, as soon as she is well enough to travel again.

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The young, French LDS sister missionary on her way to the United States Tuesday morning was at the checkout desk at the Brussels airport when the first of two bombs exploded nearby, she told European news outlets Thursday.

"There was just an enormous noise, like the end of the world in a second,"Sister Fanny Clain told France TV Pluzz, "and I found myself on the ground and debris was everywhere. I was covered in gray stuff, it smelled like burning pork.

"I got up and went outside as quickly as possible," she said. "And then people told me I was burned, and I caught site of myself in a mirror and I saw some of my burns, but I didn't look very long."

Gauze covered the burns on her head, hands and fingers as she gave the interview from her bed in the burn unit at Stuivenberg Hospital in Antwerp, Belgium. She also suffered burns to her legs.

"It burned," she said, "it burned. My leg didn't hurt too bad, it was the burns that really hurt."

She said she didn't panic.

"I wasn't afraid. I just looked for help, I wasn't afraid, people around me were very nice."

The 20-year-old from Montélimar, France, had been serving in the France Paris Mission of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints while waiting for a permanent visa to the United States. She was at the airport to catch her flight to Cleveland, Ohio, where she was to complete her missionary assignment.

Three missionaries who dropped her off at the airport were seriously injured by a blast. Nails were included in the suicide bombs to increase the amount of shrapnel, investigators said.

Elder Richard Norby, 66, of Lehi, Utah, is in a medically induced coma. His family has said he faces a long recovery from shrapnel wounds and burns to his head, neck and lower leg.

Shrapnel and heat from the bomb also wounded Elder Mason Wells, 19, of Sandy, Utah, and Elder Joseph Dresden Empey, 20, of Santa Clara, Utah.

Doctors performed surgery on Elder Wells to repair a ruptured Achilles' tendon. Elder Empey also underwent surgery on his legs. Both young men suffered burns to their heads and arms.

"I cried a little bit yesterday but I'm not going to cry too much," Clain said. "Otherwise, I'll get dehydrated."

Sister Clain's father, Thierry Clain, provided an update on her condition Friday morning.

"Fanny is doing well. She was operated on today to remove shrapnel from her body and is resting. She also received second-degree burns to her hands and face and is receiving treatment. I have been in contact with the hospital, but was unable to talk with Fanny because she was sleeping. I have been extremely touched by the concern and goodness expressed by others in regards to Fanny. I look forward to visiting her Saturday and staying a few days with her."