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SALT LAKE CITY — The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints announced Wednesday "some missionaries that were previously removed from the Japan Tokyo and Japan Sendai Missions will return to areas now considered safe within those missions."
After a 9.0 magnitude earthquake and powerful tsunami struck, LDS Church leaders made the decision to move about 200 missionaries from the Tokyo and Sendai missions.
The missionaries the Church has OK'd to return will be moving in the near future. Others will follow, the Church says, as conditions continue to improve.
Church leaders say missionaries will go to areas a "significant distance" from places most affected by the disaster.
