As Father’s Day approaches, I’d like you to remember some of my family members in your prayers. This is Keith and Susan Baker (Susan is my cousin). They have two young children, Jackson and Elizabeth. They have committed their lives and their family to Jesus.
Keith has recently been diagnosed with ALS (also called “Lou Gehrig’s Disease”). Without going into all of the details, I’ll just say it is a very serious.
You can visit the Baker family’s blog HERE.
I always try to bring pasalubong for my teammates when I come back from the States (pasalubong=a “returning home” gift) . There’s a dozen or so of them, so getting something for everyone isn’t always easy. Usually I just bring back a 5 lb bag of starburst (a chewy, sweet candy), rip it open, and let them grab it all up. I should point out that they make sure to distribute it evenly. They even share the sugary spoils with their students.
This year I decided to do something a little different. I bought all of them a bottle of vitamins. I did this in part because vitamins are very expensive here. I’ve never really figured this out.
The vitamins I bought are the generic equivalent of Centrum–the exact same formula. 130 tablets cost about four dollars (about 3 cents/1.3 pesos per tablet). Buy a 300 tablet bottle and its even cheaper.
Locally bought vitamins are a lot more expensive. Centrum vitamins can cost over 10p (22 cents) per tablet if you buy them at a drug store (where they are normally sold in individually sealed packets). I don’t get it.