This is what we really know about Romney’s near death experience.
Another vehicle struck theirs head-on, killing the mission leader’s wife.
Romney’s own wounds were so severe that first responders assumed him dead.

“When someone who you know dies, everyone is sad and the Church continues,” Calmels said.
“Missionaries we have 52,000 in the world are attacked and killed.
It can, and does, happen.

And it leaves a mark on them.”
“You arrive as a young man and you become a man,” she said.
It makes you grow, and change.
Mitt Romney had this same experience."
“For me it became much deeper.”
Talk about earning your chops.