Jerry wasn't the only baptism

Well... the highlight this week was definitely our baptism. Saturday we baptized a 10 year old boy named Jerry Bautista. He is awesome his mom is pretty active, but his dad is a drunk. It was kind of funny to teach at Jerry's house sometimes. But, the baptism was awesome. We had like 25 people attend the baptism which was more than we ever expected. The ward here is amazing.

Jerry wasn't our only "baptism this week though..." we also "baptized" our phone. haha. we went on Friday evening to check on the font and it was disgusting. So, we drained it and became the cleaning crew for a few hours. But, as we went to drain it, the phone fell out of my comps pocket and landed at the bottom of the font. Kind of sad. But, a new one only costs like 19$ so that was good.

A lot of you ask about food. I eat all sorts of weird food. I usually just don't ask what is is and just eat it. If we eat at other peoples house, we always have rice and some kind of mystery meat. I have eaten liver, intestine, pig face, chicken legs, oysters, frogs, lamb, and all sorts of mystery meat. 

Last week, Jerry came over to our house and he had 8 frogs that we on a hook. They were all still flopping around and he asked if we wanted to eat them. Of course we said we did, so we gave him a knife and a cutting board and he went to work. He would chop off the head and pull out the guts, and chop the hands off while they were still like flopping around. Then he put salt of them which makes them all start to twitch. Then we battered them and tossed them in oil. 20 minutes after he showed up to our house with the frogs, we were eating them and they were incredible. 

We always find these giant spiders in our apartment. We just catch them and then usually throw them off the deck. We caught one this week with a giant egg sack on the bottom of it. We put in in a tupperware and like 20 minutes later, it exploded and like 80 little spiders climbed out. It was kind of creepy. Super good timing for us, because if we didn't catch it, they would all be loose in our house. I have some pictures of it, but It is kind of hard to see. 

Anyway, that is all just part of life here and I love it. Life is crazy. The members here in the ward are awesome. We have a lot of progressing investigators and always keep busy. The Philippines is so prepared to hear the gospel. I miss you all and send plenty of prayers your way from this side of the world. 

-Elder Thomas

Pictures:

Jerry

The spider

cleaning crew

no bake cookies

our baptized phone