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Top LDS Church leaders have visited at least one of the missionaries injured in the Brussels bombings, now that he's moved to a Utah hospital.

Dallin H. Oaks, of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, and Brent H. Nielson, executive director of the church's missionary department and member of the First Quorum of the Seventy, visited Mason Wells and his family Wednesday at the University Hospital burn center.

In a photograph accompanying a family statement posted on Facebook, Wells gives a smile and a thumbs-up from his hospital bed, while his parents and Oaks, a high-ranking member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, stand by his side.

The 19-year-old missionary's mother, Kymberly Wells, relayed in a family statement that Oaks was "very personable and funny" during his visit. Oaks also told Mason Wells that "the Lord is pleased with his service and that it may never be known all the ways Mason's experiences and testimony have impacted others for good," the family statement adds.

A news conference with hospital staff is being planned, though a time and date have not yet been released.

Mason Wells, of Sandy, was serving in the faith's Paris mission with his companion, 20-year-old Joseph Empey, of Santa Clara. Both were seriously injured when bombs went off in the Belgian capital's airport last week.

Empey has also returned to Utah to continue his hospitalization. An LDS Church spokesperson could not immediately confirm whether Oaks and Nielson were able to visit Empey on Wednesday.

A third injured missionary from Utah, 66-year-old Richard Norby, of Lehi, is still in a Brussels hospital. He will be brought to the United States for additional care and will be released from his mission in the near future, according to a church statement.

A fourth LDS missionary, 20-year-old Fanny Rachel Clain, from Montelimar, France, was also hurt in the attacks. Clain had cleared airport security when a blast occurred. She was on her way to serve an LDS mission in Ohio and had minor injuries.

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