8-year-old from Bountiful who survived the high-speed train derailment that killed 80 people in Spain has been released from the hospital. Stephen Ward, a missionary serving in the Spain, Madrid mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, said he was traveling alone following 6 weeks of training at the Madrid Missionary Training Center and was en route to his first assignment at the time of the derailment. Thursday, the church said he was treated and released for his injuries. The Church released a statement in response to the fatal train accident and news of Ward's injuries. "Our thoughts and prayers are with all those affected by the train accident in Spain," the statement reads. "Elder Ward suffered minor injuries as well as a neck injury. A full recovery is anticipated." Ward said he remembers feeling like he was on a roller coaster. "It never even crossed my mind that we would be crashing, I just thought, ' Wow, this is different,' " he said. "And it was like that for one or two seconds and then, I could feel us leave the tracks and I blacked out before impact, for which I am grateful."wigs short hair "I remember just someone helping me to the door and helping me out onto the ground and the train had kind of fallen into a ditch and i climbed up out of the ditch and i sat there and they were bringing people out and there was blood and gore everywhere." Ward said he passed out and woke up as he was being carried from the wreckage. Now in a hospital bed in La Coruna, he said he felt lucky to be alive. "As they walked me away from the train, there were just dead bodies covered with sheets and later on, they gave me a sheet because it was getting cold, it has someone else's blood on it. It was truly horrible," he said.cloud computing service Scott Jackson, president of the Spain, Madrid mission, said Ward is alert and in good spirits. "He's in observation here at the hospital. He sustained lacerations to the scalp and a neck injury," Jackson said. "He had a concussion, but the main problem right now is his neck injury." Jackson said Ward sustained a fracture of his sixth vertebrae.CHINESE MEDICENT "There's some instability involved, and to what degree we are not certain right now," he said. "They're doing some more tests."
