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Monday.
Sometime after 9 am.
I had just gotten back from community worship and prayer. It happens every Monday. All the YWAM staff and students show up. This week was a little different. We didn’t have a speaker; it was a week for outreach prep. Which meant the outreach team would be on their own schedule. So, right after prayer and worship, most people went either back to their homes or to the office. I went back to the house. I had only been there a few minutes and I turned around to head back out the front door when I saw something that I didn’t know how to handle. A long, gray SNAKE sliding it’s way into OUR HOUSE! It just kept coming and coming. (It was a little shorter than arm’s length.) I was completely stunned. I just kept saying, ‘There’s a snake coming into our house. It’s in our house. The snake came into our house.’ I didn’t know what to do next. Lynn came closer and so did Heidi but still we just kind of stood there. Thank God that our maid was there. Nomsa had been outside and must have seen the snake heading for our door because she was not that far behind it. Her English isn’t that great but she was telling us to get back. But she was also handing me the broom. Now I had seen one of the guys kill another snake that was on our property and that snake was fast! So, was Nomsa wanting me to kill this snake with a broom? WHAT? But I didn’t even have time to ask her because as soon as I grab the broom she started whacking the snake with the mop! WHACK! She hit it about 7 times before it looked like she finally killed it. Then she picked it up with the mop handle and carried it off, probably to the edge of the property. Crazy! Later that day she showed me that she had killed another snake heading for the front door, it was a lot smaller than the other one. But that’s 2 snakes in 1 day trying to come into our house. We had been told that since the weather is cooling off that they would go into hibernation. Right.

Now as shocking as that whole experience was, the biggest shock didn’t come until Thursday. Another family that live on our same property (and they’re on staff), came to our house and showed me a picture of a snake that they got off the internet. They were asking me if it was the snake that came into the house. I told them that I didn’t get a good look at its face and they should ask Nomsa. Which they did and she said that it was the same kind of snake. A black mumba. The second most deadly snake in the world. In our house. A black mumba bite can kill you in 20 minutes. There is an anti-venom, and thank goodness there’s a clinic on our road (about 10 mins away) that has some. Can you believe it? A black mumba was it our house. I totally believe that God was watching over us. Black mumba’s are usually VERY fast but because it was in the morning and it was still pretty cool outside, it was moving slow enough to kill. Plus we think it was a baby since it was only arm’s length and they can grow to 7 feet. Crazy!