Sorry I haven't put anything up in a while. Here's more from our favorite white African-American.

Dear Family and Friends, Its been pretty crazy the past few days. I am serving in Liberia, in thebush rod area, and the caldwell branch. As it turns out, my companion and iare the first missionaries that this ward has had sense the war, and theonly ones to ever be assigned to the branch. Liberia is the poorest westafrica country, the exchange rate for one of their dollars is 60 to 1, whichis ridiculous. I know you are going to cry when i tell you this, but i gavethe crocs to my mtc companion because they were too small, sorry that i madeyou pay for them, but if you are getting a porsche than i guess a pair ofcrocs wasnt too bad. :). We are in the nicest apartment in the whole of Liberia, mainly becuase wehave power for 24 hours, but it turns off for hours at a time becuase we arehooked up to an ice plant right next to us. We are in the second floor of achurch building and everything in it is brand spankin new. The couplemissionaries here bought us some food for the apartment, they got us captaincrunch, weird milk, bread, jiffy peanut butter, and some smuckers jelly.Its funny because it is like a very poor usa, with a lot of black people. Ihave seen only a handfull of whites here, and a few asians too. Mycompanion is from nigeria,and his name is Elder Echi-Aboli, and he is verystrong. We arm wrestled and he beat me, but just barely. One of the eldersin Liberia is from winnemucca, and one of the guys i went to the mtc with isfrom spanish fork. He doesn't know Kami and Jeremy, but still, small world.I have told a few people that I play drum set, but not too many. On a funnynote,the two american missionaries that came with me to the Sierra Leonemission have jenny's waiting for them back home... if that's not a sign fromGod i dont know what is. I will be able to email you every monday, as that is my pday, and mycompanion emails, so its all good. I wont be able to call on fathers day,it will be on christmas, sorry. So, happy late mothers day, and birthday.It is looking like it is about ready to start the rainy season, but i dontthink it officially starts until next month. I am supposed to stay incaldwell for nine months, but i think that is a really long time to bestaying in one place, but we are not focussing so much on baptisms, butreactivation. There is an average of 68 people at sacrament and way morethan that on the roster. All the little kids look at me and yell "whiteman" from accross the street. And they all try to grab my hands and shakeit. Its funny being a tall white guy... everybody notices me. Time hasbeen passing by fairly fast, and i know that once we get started working itis going to go by much faster. I pray for you guys all the time. Love you all tons, Danny

(You can email Elder Gaxiola at "gaxiola@unr.nevada.edu")