Lone Peak guard Nick Emery, who signed with the BYU basketball program in November, has been called to serve a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Frankfurt Germany Mission.
Emery is scheduled to enter the Missionary Training Center on May 1.
Video of Emery opening his mission call on Christmas Eve has been posted to Vimeo.com.
Emery is averaging 18.6 points per game for the Knights, who are one of the top teams in the nation. In his career, Emery has scored 1,693 points and drained 241 3-pointers.
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Why is this news worthy? I'll care about him when he returns from his mission, and starts putting points on the board.
Elder Emery, You will love the Frankfurt Germany Mission. We are a senior couple serving there now. Sorry that we will miss seeing you in Germany.
@rafinsure and ziggy7,
Having a bad day? My gosh! There are much worse things to fret about in life, isn't it? So what if Des News makes this a newsworthy story? It may not be newsworthy to you but to the rest of us it's More..