Mexico

Is a missions trip to Mexico about advancing the Kingdom of God or is it about advancing American pride? Or is it perhaps a way to work on our personal character issues. Yes, lets go on a missions trip, make it as difficult as possible so all our character flaws come to the top. Scrap off the top and return to our home churchs with a successful missions trip under our belts. If we don't change either the trip wasn't hard enough or we must be perfect. It couldn't be that we have the wrong idea about short term trips?