Monthly Medication

{Расскази как марти получ он медикамент.} This is a story on how Marty received his medicine.

As many of you know I have taken daily medication for hypertension since my senior year of high school. When we arrived in PK we quickly found out that my medication was not available here. We were given information on how to order my meds from the states and have it shipped here while at FPO training. That is what we did. They shipped me a seven month supply. It took about 5 weeks for the medicine to arrive. No problem, I had enough meds on hand to wait that long thanks to Randy’s state side trip. He brought me back a month’s supply.

We received a letter that my meds had arrived at the down town central post office and attached to the notification was a customs form.( I remember one day waiting in line at the North Mississippi Medical Center Pharmacy for about 30 minutes and began to get impatient. ) For me to receive my meds in Russia from the states it took a little longer than 30minutes. Let me just give you a summary report.

1. Received notification that meds were at the post office.
2. Attempted to retrieve meds. We were given the customs notification.
3. Went to customs.
4. Next day sent back to customs.
5. Took a customs inspector with us to the post office to inspect the box.
6. Back at customs, box remains at Post office.
7. Get in a Russian jeep with “Dog the bounty hunters” twin.
8. Ride through the customs ship yard and to a secluded building.
9. Meet with more customs agents.
10. Finally 2 signatures, 2 stamps and back to the post office.
11. Summary (3 days, 24 custom agents, inspector, dog the bounty hunter, ride in Russian custom’s official jeep and we received 7 months worth of Meds).

The next time you are at the pharmacy and have someone in line in front of you. Just smile and remember that you will probably not have to talk to 24 custom officials. All in all Tracey and I laughed a lot and “Dog the bounty hunter” was a funny guy. He even spun some circles in the jeep on the ice.

Philippians 4:19 and my God will supply all your needs according to His riches in glory in Christ Jesus.

Notice the picture of Emma Grace standing beside a life size photo of Lottie Moon. Take time this month and research a little about this young lady who devoted her life to missions. Please ask the Lord how you can support missions this month during the Lottie Moon Christmas Offering. It is this offering that keeps us on field and helps provide things like monthly medications, even if it takes all the above to retrieve it.