Finally in Mexico... it's crazy!

So I'm finally here! Through many long doubles back to back and very generous donations, the LORD has been faithful and provided me everything I could have ever needed to get down here.
I arrived late afternoon on the 28th of April and left immediately at 6am the next day on a missions trip with the local church to Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico to help build a new church, and encourage the local believers by putting a service on every night at different churches and 3 services on Sunday! After a 60 hour drive round trip I'm back and lemme tell you this, God is amazing and his timing is perfect!
After that last statement you may assume I had a really fun, good time in Sinloa but rather it was a little of the opposite. Yes it was fun and yes I enjoyed a lot of parts of the trip and for those of you who know me I sure did have a lot of laughs along the way but if I were to give the trip a title it would be "Sometimes God has to break you in order to fix you." The trip was hard. I don't have enough time to explain every little detail of what happened because that would take 10 days or so ;) but let me do my best.
Almost the entire focus of the trip was construction. I hate doing construction! :) But God worked with me. I'm not gonna lie, day one when we got to the construction sight and started cutting bars and mixing cement by hand on the ground I wasn't too happy. I was a bit bitter and a bit more frustrated. I wanted to be playing with kids! This town has to have some kids in it right? I kept hoping some of 'em would show up at the construction sight so I could drop the shovel and start a sweet game of tag... but it never happened. That night I lied in my tent on the rock hard ground because I forgot a pad, thoughts of the scorpions and spiders outside ready to crawl through the whole conveniently placed right by my foot and mosquitos, flies and jejemezes (spanish for stupid little satan mosquitos) flying around my face. Then I started to pray. "God, what's the deal? why am I so bitter? This is what I asked for right? I asked for you to bring me to Mexico, I asked that you would give me the privilege of serving your people here didn't I? So what's my problem? Change me LORD, make my heart break for these people. Let me have compassion on them, let me serve them with a pure heart!" Next morning, God began working...
Over the next 7 days or so God really changed my attitude and the funny thing is the trip itself started getting even harder! More "problems" kept getting dropped on my plate with more things to worry about but because of this new changed attitude instead of letting things upset me and ruin my attitude I was able to turn them around into glorifying God through circumstance! I could write forever about all the little adventures and things that happened.... 3 legged dogs, 4 8 year olds ridding 1 motorcycle down the street, 1 10 year old driving a truck past me, miles and miles of corn fields, eating fresh mango off trees, fish dinners caught and prepared the same day, the list goes on!!!! I'm be sure to get some pictures up here really soon too!
After this first 10 days or so I can't say it's been the funnest most enjoyable experience yet, but what I can say is that allowing God to refine your heart hurts, but is beyond worth it!

Dios les bendiga,

Ernesto