Day 1/2

Today was the ultimate traveling day! I've never been on a plane for so long, or switched planes as many times as I did today. We flew out from Kansas City, after a very wet downpour drenched us as a goodbye from kansas. This flight took us to Minneapolis, and then from there, we flew over the vast atlantic to Amsterdam, which is in Holland (for those of you who don't know). Then, we got on a packed flight to Ghana! Overall, we did around 22 hours of traveling/waiting, and when arriving in Ghana, we throuoghly smelled like airplane and B.O. The temperature coming into Ghana was amazingly warm! It was like Florida weather, and on the decent, Seth and I took bets as to what the temperature would be. I said 80 and Seth said 85. Well, it turned out to be a whopping 84 plus humidity, and this is just the temperature at night! I can't even imagine how hot it is going to be tomorrow in the sun! Ghana, from what we could gather in the darkness we arrived in, is a very interesting country. It has it's own unique smell and the people are very friendly! The streets of Accra (the capitol city and the city we flew into) were filled with street vendors, people who were just trying to make a living. It was interesting to pass by in our van packed full of people and have them be wiling to just come up to the van to try and sell us something. As we were driving, I sat next to the window and got to get a good view of what Ghana looks like at night, and what its people are like. As I was sitting there, I got a sudden longing to just be with these people and share my love of Christ with them, be it through preaching or just hanging out with them. I can't wait until tomorrow to go out and be with these amazing people God has created! We'll see what these next two weeks have to offer...
<3 Kim <3