Monkeys and Leopards in Mussoorie

This just in from Dad - writing about happenings at the Shanti Kunj homestead:

We sometimes joke about these two species, but THIS IS NO JOKE:

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Saturday, we had prepared a small packet for one of the girls from EMI to take to the States to mail to Premi. As Vickey walked out our upper front gate, there were a few monkeys beside the path. He took no notice of them. All of a sudden, two of them jumped up and grabbed Premi's parcel from his hand and one of them rushed up the tree. At the same time, a third money came up from behind and grabbed his leg and began to bite. Fortunately he had on jeans and so the teeth did not get thru to his skin.

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He was so SHOCKED, he rushed back into the house, took a stick and rushed back up the path. He began shouting and waving the stick.

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AMAZINGLY, the monkey who had the packet dropped it AND Vickey reached out and caught it. We are truly thanking the Lord, becausethose creatures could have taken the packet and gone off anywhere and ripped it to shreds!

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Yesterday, Sunday, Vickey had gone for a walk into the woods in his chappals. He walked down the back path to Jabarkhet. He then cut down to Fairy Glen and then thot to keep going down into the woods. It was all so quiet and peaceful. When he was way down, near the stream, all of a sudden he noticed all the birds around were shouting and chirping.

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Then something moved in front of him off the path. He looked down and there, barely 15 feet way was A LEOPARD in a crouching position, it's long tail spread out behind it. They both looked into each others eyes. Vickey's heart froze, he was so scared. The next moment he just turned and raced STRAIGHT UP THE HILL, thru the bushes and all. He got his hands all scratched up, but he said he had INCREDIBLE ENERGY AND SPEED.

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Fortunately, the leopard must have been as surprised as Vickey and did not wish to follow him, PRAISE THE LORD! Finally when he reached Fairy Glen he just collapsed and realized what a miraculous escape he had had.

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Probably the leopard was coming along the same bath and when he (or she) heard Vickey, he/she jumped down OFF THE PATH, to about 10 feet below the path. Vickey really feels that is he/she had BEEN ABOVE HIM, he/she would have jumped on him.This was about the 4th time Vickey has had an encounter with this species in the near past.

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We prayed over Vickey, especially to ask Holy Spirit to remove every spirit of fear and trauma thru these two experiences, one right after the other.