3 LDS Missionaries injured in Belgium blast

[pam]

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-missionaries-injured-belgium-explosion?cid=social_20160322_59631976&adbid=10153775350192013&adbpl=fb&adbpr=53305042012

March 22, 2016, at 8:00 a.m. MDT)  Three Mormon missionaries serving in the Paris, France mission were seriously injured in Tuesday's explosion at the Brussels airport, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints reported this morning.

The three had been accompanying a fourth missionary who was on her way to a mission assignment in Ohio, and who had already passed through airport security.

[LeSellers]

I initially heard the three were dead. (See my topic on this.)

Just another indicator of the horror we live through.

Lehi

[NightSG]

1 hour ago, LeSellers said:

I initially heard the three were dead.

Who's handling the betting pool on how long it takes before they enter Church legends as having been resurrected shortly after the first news report?

[NeuroTypical]

With stuff like this getting more and more commonplace, I don't think it'll fall into legend.  I expect danger to us all, missionaries or not, from violent terrorists will enter our consciousness more and more as we deal with this stuff.

[pam]

We are in the last days and things such as this have been prophesied.

[Guest]

In the 80s when there was a lot of activity in Central America, missionaries were killed there.  While still sad, I don't see this as something that should conjure images of the slain prophets nor resurrection thereof.

[mirkwood]

This was a terrorist attack and should never be viewed as anything else.

[LeSellers]

14 minutes ago, mirkwood said:

This was a terrorist attack and should never be viewed as anything else.

Nor should we forget who these terrorists are.

Lehi

[Guest MormonGator]

1 hour ago, mirkwood said:

This was a terrorist attack and should never be viewed as anything else.

Absolutely true. 

[NightSG]

2 hours ago, pam said:

We are in the last days and things such as this have been prophesied.

So now the younger pair will be shipped over to Jerusalem for a special three-and-a-half year mission?

(Let's see if the rumors get going  )

No need for a clothing budget or a return ticket if that's the case, though.

[Guest]

One missionary:  His Third brush with terrorism.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/american-mormon-survives-attack-brussels-brush-terrorism/story?id=37850974

On the radio this morning an announcer said,"Someone needs to look into this guy.  Why is he always around terror attacks?  Awfully suspicious."  He was joking.  He went on to say,"He's either very lucky or very unlucky depending on how you look at it."

That statement reminded me of Hugh Nibley, of whom it was said,"Everything happens to him.  And nothing happens to him."

[NightSG]

1 hour ago, Carborendum said:

One missionary:  His Third brush with terrorism.

http://abcnews.go.com/International/american-mormon-survives-attack-brussels-brush-terrorism/story?id=37850974

Some people really should buy lottery tickets.

[Ironhold]

I was the first person on the scene at two drunk driving accidents in an eleven-month period and made the initial emergency services call in both instances. 

Between that and a number of other incidents, dispatch kinda knows me. 

 

In that sense, I can sympathize with the guy. 

[NightSG]

12 hours ago, Ironhold said:

I was the first person on the scene at two drunk driving accidents in an eleven-month period and made the initial emergency services call in both instances. 

That one used to happen to me all the time when I lived about 10 minutes out of town on the back way in from the nearest non-dry county.  People just couldn't wait until they made the 20 minute drive home to start drinking heavily, so they'd take the back road, which had a few tricky spots.  It got to where dispatch and the deputies had memorized all the names of the corners, curves and bridges out there, plus who lived at each house on that road.  At one point, the county commissioners proposed putting up signs at each one so they could get the right locations when people unfamiliar with the area called in the wrecks, but it was mostly those of us who lived there that made the first call anyway.

Didn't take me long after I started driving to start carrying rubber gloves in the car too.  Usually, the wrecks fell into two categories, though; the ones where direct pressure and telling them not to move around was plenty until the ambulance showed up, and the ones where you don't even bother getting too close because the JP is the only one that needs to look at that for now.

[Ironhold]

2 hours ago, NightSG said:

That one used to happen to me all the time when I lived about 10 minutes out of town on the back way in from the nearest non-dry county.  People just couldn't wait until they made the 20 minute drive home to start drinking heavily, so they'd take the back road, which had a few tricky spots.  It got to where dispatch and the deputies had memorized all the names of the corners, curves and bridges out there, plus who lived at each house on that road.  At one point, the county commissioners proposed putting up signs at each one so they could get the right locations when people unfamiliar with the area called in the wrecks, but it was mostly those of us who lived there that made the first call anyway.

Didn't take me long after I started driving to start carrying rubber gloves in the car too.  Usually, the wrecks fell into two categories, though; the ones where direct pressure and telling them not to move around was plenty until the ambulance showed up, and the ones where you don't even bother getting too close because the JP is the only one that needs to look at that for now.

This was the first one - http://www.kwtx.com/home/headlines/Driver-Dies-When-Car-Crashes-Into-Local-Building-Bursts-Into-Flames-204849911.html#storyVideo . I was at the newspaper office when the vehicle in question plowed into the building next door; I was in the front of the building and so I heard it all. I can't find a link to the article with the autopsy results, but toxicology found large amounts of alcohol, marijuana, and xanax in his system; I showed the article to a guy at church who was a retired Army medic, and he indicated that with the quantities they found, the kid was so blitzed out of his mind that even if he was awake when he hit (he was doing 80 in a 40 zone) he didn't feel a thing.

The second one took place along a "main road" that connects several residential zones. In that case, the driver was likewise drunk when she was going past, and due to the way the road is (she was coming up an incline) she didn't see that a vehicle had stopped in the middle of the road so that its occupants could talk with someone who was in front of a house. There weren't any fatalities this time around, but one of the people who was in front of the house had to be hospitalized, the vehicle - a brand new Corvette - was totaled, and a brick mailbox was destroyed. 

[NightSG]

19 minutes ago, Ironhold said:

toxicology found large amounts of alcohol, marijuana, and xanax in his system;

Definitely a type of multitasking that shouldn't be attempted.  Heck, I once made the mistake of washing down a couple Percocet (at the high end of the "as needed" dose for the injury I was recovering from) with beer and thought the walls were going to crush me a half hour later.  Killed the pain quite nicely, but the world looked like it was made of Jello and being shaken and squeezed constantly until that wore off.

Edited March 24, 2016 by NightSG

[Vort]

Here's an Italian writeup on one of the missionaries.

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/primopiano/esteri/mason_wells_missionairio_sopravvissuto_tre_attentati-1628972.html

[Anddenex]

If I heard correctly, one of these missionaries is from my wife's home ward.

[NeuroTypical]

The missionaries are making local news here in non-LDS Colorado Springs.  They're playing the audio of injured missionary's phone call to his tearful mom.  Hardly any commentary on what a mission is, or anything like that, just showing the human angle.  I thought that was interesting.  

[NightSG]

I know I've mentioned the book elsewhere on here, but if you want to have an idea of what Mason Wells will be going through over the next several months, read Brian Birdwell's book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HP3Q1S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

I had the opportunity to hear most of his story in person, and even as well as he tells it, it's hard to imagine the agony of that kind of burn recovery.  On the other hand, he's an amazing example of what modern medicine can do with a burn victim, and how important faith is to the whole process.

[BeccaKirstyn]

12 hours ago, NightSG said:

I know I've mentioned the book elsewhere on here, but if you want to have an idea of what Mason Wells will be going through over the next several months, read Brian Birdwell's book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005HP3Q1S/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?ie=UTF8&btkr=1

I had the opportunity to hear most of his story in person, and even as well as he tells it, it's hard to imagine the agony of that kind of burn recovery.  On the other hand, he's an amazing example of what modern medicine can do with a burn victim, and how important faith is to the whole process.

Stephanie Nielson has also shared a wonderful, heartbreaking story of her recovery from being burned over 80% of her body. She is just amazing.  http://www.amazon.com/Heaven-Here-Incredible-Triumph-Everyday/dp/1401341985/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1458975565&sr=8-1&keywords=Heaven+is+Here

[pam]

Here's an update on the 4 missionaries:

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-missionaries-injured-belgium-explosion

[NightSG]

10 hours ago, pam said:

Here's an update on the 4 missionaries:

http://www.mormonnewsroom.org/article/mormon-missionaries-injured-belgium-explosion

Who's handling the over/under on how long it will be before some "good Mormon girl" turns down Wells or Empey for not being faithful enough since they got sent home early?

Put me down for $10 on within 6 months.

[pam]

1 hour ago, NightSG said:

Who's handling the over/under on how long it will be before some "good Mormon girl" turns down Wells or Empey for not being faithful enough since they got sent home early?

Put me down for $10 on within 6 months.

To be honest, they have had so much attention thrown on them, I bet they have girls proposing to them.   Plus the fact they are both adorable looking.  

[LeSellers]

1 hour ago, NightSG said:

Who's handling the over/under on how long it will be before some "good Mormon girl" turns down Wells or Empey for not being faithful enough

Methinks your cynicism is working overtime.

Lehi