The days feel like Minutes!

this week has been pretty normal but also super awesome. the days seriously feel like minutes now and it's really freaking me out. 

tuesday i had an exchange with one of the zone leaders named elder adams. it was super fun and we found a cool evangalist lady who is pretty interested. not bad for a days work.

in case any of you were wondering i now drive stick and i'm pretty much the boss. it was sketchy at first but now i've really got the hang of it and i'm pretty clutch (ha ha get it) in every situation. that's just a little about my driving skills. yes i still speed from time to time but i'd rather not get a ticket on my mission so i try not to do that anymore

Chantal is basically the best ever. she finished the lorenzo snow book and we presented her an intense 7 days quit smoking program. she's been following it and hasn't smoked since we saw her at church yesterday. sweet! I just can't believe how much she changes every time we meet with her. it's true! the gospel blesses lives and will make you happier i see it all the time. woah! i'm so excited for her baptism! yay

we were porting one day and we found out way into a little apartment building. we call them bats in france which is short for bâtiment so i will refer to it as that. we ported the whole bat and didn't find anything till the last door where a lady opened up. there were kids running everywhere and it was crazy. we talked for a little bit and i found out she way 27 with 6 kids. she looked 40 at least, mostly she just looked tired even more tired than us missionaries. but she said her parents had never really taught her the gospel or anything about religion. she said it never really interested her till she saw her children. it really makes me think of all the times i've taken advantage of how awesome it is to have so much religion in my community back home. makes me cringe as well at all the times i've just taken advantage of all the wonderful blessings right in front of me when there are people who haven't had that in their lives. oh well it takes a mission to realize things like that. i'm just thankful for my family and the wonderful community i grew up in. 

on the 11th we have the wonderful opportunity to go see an apostle speak. elder ballard is coming to our mission and there were only a selected number of zones who got chosen and ours was one of them. i'm so excited to get to listen to an apostles again. that's 2 times already on my mission. woah! i remember when i was getting ready to leave everyone told me how difficult the french people were going to be and how hard this mission was. but i can truly say that our mission is doing things that it's never done and it's definitely starts up top with President Poznanski and all our leaders are so sweet and i'm so happy to be in this mission. not because i'm on france and it's a sick place but really because i know i have a purpose here and that we were all sent here to boost up france. no it isn't easy but that's alright! I love our mission so much! like i said the days feel like minutes and every week just flies by. oh man it's crazy

love you all

elder oliverson