2010-03-10T06:26:02Z http://memories.touchofloveperu.org/atom.aspx Quick Blogcast tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2010-02-10:a47c18e9-b6c6-4683-b78f-ba2a7aa7e273 Touch of Love Volunteer 2010-02-10T18:51:00Z 2010-02-10T18:51:00Z "Grab a machete! Time to mow the lawn." (Oops---did I forget to mention that the industrial weed-eaters have died?). "The barbed wire fence looks great....super work stringing those wires well over three kilometers, guys!" Now that the border fencing is complete, it's high time to get started on something to utilize our border land, thus giving it legal protection from possible squatter invasion. Initiating Oil Palm plantations along at least part of the border will begin that process. We definitely don't want to lose what we have worked so hard to earn. "Be ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2010-02-09:17277124-b614-4dc7-b336-c3239934b200 Touch of Love Volunteer 2010-02-09T22:06:00Z 2010-02-09T22:06:00Z The casket Deborah Roquiz saw before her was tiny, perhaps a little over than 2-feet in length. Next to it sat a man on a couch, whose eyes stared unwaveringly at the television in front of him. The scene was strange and not what Deborah expected to find though she knew that the black flag with a small white cross in the center that hung from the window meant someone in the home had died. But a baby? How could that be? “May I play a song on my violin for you?” she asked ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2010-02-02:d3b30b80-1c6e-449b-b797-6c4fa2e70e52 Touch of Love Volunteer 2010-02-02T20:23:00Z 2010-02-02T20:23:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2010-02-02:4e3e8df7-3981-43be-a511-e4a1668d4df8 Touch of Love Volunteer 2010-02-02T20:13:00Z 2010-02-02T20:13:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Tabla normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}The start of a new year Many people put lots of emphasis on thebeginning of a new year. Many people make New Year’s resolutions, new goals,new diets, new friends, and try ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2010-01-18:a756a146-b7d6-4a0f-b9d5-89e2b96686d4 Touch of Love Volunteer 2010-01-18T18:41:00Z 2010-01-18T18:41:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-12-01:d44acb00-45b8-4e54-801c-0e8a23b076b9 Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-12-01T15:09:00Z 2009-12-01T15:09:00Z It was almost eerie for Eduard Mercado to listen to the man speak. He wondered whether to believe him, and then decided he should. The man was the father of 4 children who lived in a small tin-roofed home with his wife. The two nights before, he claimed he had a vision. “A young man named Eduard will come to your home,” God had said in the dream. “Please listen to him.” The next night the man again had a dream. “The seventh day is the Sabbath. Guard it.” The following day there he was, a young Peruvian Bible worker ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-12-01:82ac091f-4eb4-4f62-b7ae-ec51d0c37b1e Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-12-01T15:06:00Z 2009-12-01T15:06:00Z Their paddles brushed through the water, tickling the surface and making small ripples that bounced off the edges of the river bank. Mindy Schreven, Martin Corona, and Kevin House with their new Peruvian friends Joel and Mario crept down the waters on a clear but very relaxed mission. They were going to go fishing. Equipped with a spear, a net, and a few antique fishing poles the five of them searched out the scaly creatures. But of course, as they shouted and laughed the fish swam away and by the end of the day they ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-12-01:d0e50b32-de3d-4e99-80ea-0e9165193f8f Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-12-01T15:02:00Z 2009-12-01T15:02:00Z Hannah Rodriguez and Deborah Roquiz walked along the sloping road, returning back from a long morning of classes in the town of Yerbas Buenas. Hearing the distant hum of an approaching vehicle, they didn’t think anything of it until it slowed next to them. It was a man, a taxi driver from Campo Verde traveling back home with his wife and son. He offered them a ride which they gladly accepted. As they continued down the road, now at a much quicker pace than before, the family began to talk to them. In broken Spanish, ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-12-01:a13ca503-bc25-483e-9cd1-120ded26d74f Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-12-01T15:01:00Z 2009-12-01T15:01:00Z The trees were absolutely covered with ants. “That made it all the merrier,” says Kevin House, an ecological worker at Km. 38. He and Hector Leon slowly approached the two large fichus trees that stood cautiously on the other side of the road. The ants began to scatter in fear as they started to rip long branches from the trees. When planting new fichus trees, one must not cut off the branches with a machete or the branch will dry up. You must rip off the branch for it to be useable. The week ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-11-25:6fa762de-6202-42b7-8382-025a843abf2c Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-11-25T15:12:00Z 2009-11-25T15:12:00Z To YOU,Have you ever met the “in-a-pinch God?” Have you ever been part of a miracle? Have you ever seen God do something that seemed impossible? We ran out of black ink in our office printer out in the Peru jungle. Tara removed the cartridge to try and refill it, but somehow it didn’t seem to work right. The printer, as you may imagine, is a vital part of project administration...and a printer with no ink is fairly worthless. Or so you might think. The crazy thing is that even without a black ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-11-02:f48708b1-619d-4413-b10a-3f2b326d64eb Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-11-02T19:11:00Z 2009-11-02T19:11:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-11-02:993f42b1-38db-4a40-8aff-6b4c06ef4e97 Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-11-02T19:07:00Z 2009-11-02T19:07:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-24:658996ac-b498-4958-8814-7738cd3242fa Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-25T01:22:00Z 2009-10-25T01:22:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-15:61816995-7c38-43b9-8e0a-c089c5c1d7eb Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-15T18:15:00Z 2009-10-15T18:15:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-15:e734849b-ea27-48ff-a471-34190c115d91 Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-15T17:55:00Z 2009-10-15T17:55:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-11:65f3089a-8271-4e8c-8304-693f47555338 Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-11T22:49:00Z 2009-10-11T22:49:00Z Walking in silence I went forward, not sure why I didn’t think to get out of the truck sooner. Counting the blocks in my head, “One, two, three, seven… oh well Tara, you need the exercise anyways”. Headed to the bank, liberia and market, I had lost track of my location in conversation and was on the opposite end of town. Step after simple step I went, stopping in random stores along the way in search of normal sized paper and folders. Head held high, gaze straight forward, hop over this hole, watch out for ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-01:9743d983-5e92-4b2b-bd42-8629c5638bfd Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-01T18:11:00Z 2009-10-01T18:11:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-10-01:07b75308-3732-4947-be5f-281a720b1f3e Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-10-01T17:40:00Z 2009-10-01T17:40:00Z Normal 0 21 unctuationKerning/> false false false ontGrowAutofit/> MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-09-25:1018e29c-dc4a-4a08-84dd-4be80f37090e Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-09-25T20:56:00Z 2009-09-25T20:56:00Z That is how long it took to extract one tooth. Now that Dr. Fillman (the dentist who trained us) has left, the dental team is all alone trying to figure out what to do with only 2 weeks of training. I was pretty excited during the first three clinics because I wanted to test out my newfound skills. However, my excitement pretty much disappeared as I began to feel hopeless, digging around in this woman´s mouth for THREE HOURS. After breaking the crown an hour in, my partner, Colt, and I took turns trying to dig out the root of ... tag:memories.touchofloveperu.org,2009-09-25:aaa0ceeb-1972-4ec8-b74c-a4fba88487fa Touch of Love Volunteer 2009-09-25T20:49:00Z 2009-09-25T20:49:00Z “Do you need glasses for reading or for distance?” I asked. “I can’t read my Bible,” the patient answered. I marked “Poor near vision” on the registration sheet and moved to the next hopeful client. Fifteen people later, Carol Dyke handed the man a Bible and tried several lenses in front of his eyes. Suddenly his face lit up. He ...