Snakes

Last night during church, we saw a coral snake!!! It was about a foot a and half long, and was red and black. It was scary, but hilarious because we had about 4 men that night not including us, and they all got around it, so it wouldn't get away while they were getting a machete. All of a sudden, one of the ladies took our broom went to the snake, and broke the broom on the snake. :-) Then Matthew killed it. We tried to look it up online but we could't find anything like it. Hopefully this picture is big enough so you can see it. It is black with red stripes. no other colors. I know about the saying, "Red on yellow, kill a fellow. Red on black, venom lack." But all of the Belizean natives called it a coral snake. It was kind of funny but scary at the same time, because there were four men around, and a woman took care of the snake. :-) Another story..... Also the day before the coral snake was killed, Savannah, my seven year old sister, saw a snake at our house in our yard next to the fence. There is no picture here of it, but we have a concrete fence about a 16 inches tall, then chain link fence goes up from that. My Dad, Matt, and I got flat-headed shovels and went kill to the snake. It was about two feet long and had a lizard in its mouth. I went to one side and tried to hit it with the shovel, and it started jumping. Not striking, but jumping straight up in the air! After it jumped twice, it spit the lizard out of it's mouth and started jumping towards me. I quickly started to use the shovel again, but it jumped straight in the air and went backwards, through the chain link fence, never to be seen again. WE HOPE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Easter Sunday

Yesterday was Easter and we had our biggest day yet of 54 people. We had 9 young ladies saved. Praise the Lord! For some reason my memory card won't cooperate with the computer so I will have to post pictures later. 

My first blog

We are the Leonards. There is Dad, Mom, me (Chad), Matt, Jessica, Alanna, Savannah, and Michayla. We have six kids in our family and we are missionaries to Belize, Central America. I'm the oldest and it stairsteps down in the order stated above. We have been on deputation for five years and we've been on the field for almost 2 months. Wow two months already. I will keep you posted on the interesting things that happen to the Leonard family.