yeah, i am there!

So, I am really in Ghana right now. Tuesdaymorning I arrived in Takoradi, where I live with Sammy and Lucy and the kids right now. The weather is very hot, constantly sweatting, even when I just took a shower (here a shower is a bucket with water where you get some water out to throw it over your head), you are sweatting again. Finally it has just rained, so that makes it a little bit cooler.
In Takoradi, you see taxi's everywhere, because here you can easily make from your own car a taxi. Just buy some orange paint and a little bord with "taxi" and you have your own taxi.

I went two times to the project already, the workman are building very hard on the place for the watertank, the house of Sammy and Lucy and the hostel for the kids. The kids are so cool! Especially when they saw my camera, they all wanted to pose and they were pushing each other away so they were in front of the camera. I am not sure I also can post some pictures, because the internet here is very, very slow.

Until now, the food is very nice, I ate coconuts and all other kinds of fruit, and even dinner was not yet with fish (thank God!) Lucy is a very good cook, yesterday she even made pancakes (I LOVE pancakes).

Two days ago we went to church, where everybody was dancing and praising the Lord. It was for me just shocking to see how everybody was so thankful and happy while they are living in poverty. That made me think about how is it possible that everybody in Holland is so "cold" and "quiet", especially in the church, even the more charismatic churches, when Christ is the best thing you can get! Why are we in Holland not really happy because Christ saved us? Do we not understand the meaning of salvation?
I talked about it with Sammy, and I think I came to a conclusion.
You can only find the real happiness and the real luck in Jesus Christ. The people here only have Christ, they don't have a lot other things to trust in. In Holland we think that we don't "need" Jesus, because we have everything we need already in materialistic posessions. But because the people here have all their faith in God, and are really depending on God, they are actually so much more happy then we are a lot of times.
I almost felt guilty towards God, when I was sitting in the church, because I was quit convinced that my whole life was depending on God, while it was totally not.
I am convinced I can learn a lot of these people here, there is so much in my life what I think is normal, but what is totally not normal.
The faith of the people here amazes me. They are thanking God for every single thing what God has given to them, even for a cold glass of water. The cool thing is, that God is doing miracles here! The more we expect from God, the more He will do. Let God be God.

Please pray for Sammy, he has some problems with his health.
Pray for more money for the project, because it is so needed that there is enough money to finish the work.
Please pray for me, that I will not get sick, not get too homesick (I miss Robert already..), that I will be fruitful for the work and the people here and that God goes on with teaching me things. That I do not lose my focus why I am here, but that I keep seeing that it is all about God, and what He wants from me here. God is an amazing God.