Elder Atticus Cutri

Olá todos! I'm gonna start this weeks email with a baptism story! If any you remember our friend Carlos who lives in London, well last Sunday he was baptized! It was such a great experience watching his baptism through Zoom! Haha I think that's gonna be a normal thing now for missionaries 😉. I was able to give the spiritual thought at this baptism and it was so touching to see how truly happy he was to be baptized. After his baptism he called us and we just talked about how far he has come and how much of a miracle it was that we were able to get in contact with him and teach him through technology!  This week has been pretty normal, teaching online, staying in the house most of the day, all of the usual. But this Sunday we had our first sacrament meeting in person! I only had 3 here in Portugal - so this was my 4th sacrament meeting in person and I've been out here for 6 months... haha whatever 😅. Our Bishop gave a great talk about hearing and following the Lords voice o...

Olá meus queridos!! These past two weeks have been so busy, but so much fun! My comps and I had the opportunity to participate in each zone conference in our mission!  We traveled to each zone in our mission, so basically the whole country of Portugal!! It was such a cool experience to do this! I was able to see how beautiful this country is and I met all of the missionaries in our mission! I was able to help with the training that my comps did at zone conference because they are the president assistants. Our training was on how we can use Facebook and social media effectively to find new people to teach! We created a whole presentation to show how we can do this! It's been really cool to see how creative missionary work is getting! There isn't only one way to do the Lords work. We all have our unique talents and skills that can help other people come unto Christ!  Last Wednesday I hit my 6 months in my mission! I really feel like I have grown and learned ...

Olá!! I don't have a lot of time to write, but I'm doing really good and having a lot of fun out here in Portugal! I will still be serving in my same area Queluz for this transfer but I'll be living with the AP's who live in the city right next to mine called Cacém! Since I'm with the AP's now I have the opportunity to see what they do and how they help our mission President and the mission! One cool thing that we did were divisions or "splits". We basically drove all around Lisboa and more down south and met with other elders in those areas and did some ministering! It was such a cool experience and I really learned a lot. I really do feel the happiest when I'm serving others. Also last week was my birthday and we went to the mall and got Taco Bell at the only Taco Bell in Portugal and went shopping! We also snuck in time to go the beach! I thought that was it and then the sweet sisters in my district surprised me with cinnamon rolls and ballo...

Ola todos!! Sorry I'm so bad at keeping you guys updated, but here is the update! So we were able to be out of quarantine for a week and work on the street again and it was HEAVEN!! But then the church sent out some thing saying that it was still too risky, so we are now back in quarantine lol 😅😪. Teaching and finding online is still going good. I haven't been able to contact my friend Artur for a while so that's a bummer. But we have been teaching this new guy, named Carlos, who is from London and he is so cool and progressing so much. He was a referral we recieved from a member when my comp and I both gave talks last sacrament meeting thru Zoom. This sister in our ward  really liked our talks and sent us Carlos’ info. He is from Portugal, but lives in London right now, but he will be coming back to Portugal in July he thinks, so hopefully we can meet him in person then! These past couple of weeks I have been really thinking about why I'm still here 😂. Being st...

Olá gente! We are still in quarantine, still can't work on the streets, and still have no idea when all of this will change! 😂😅 But having faith and a postive attitude makes these difficult times a lot better and easier to handle.  The work here however has not slowed down one bit! We are still teaching our friend Camila who accepted the invitation to be baptized! However she is 17 and her parents won't allow her to be baptized until she is 18, so we are doing everything we can to help her stay committed! I havent been able to contact our friend Artur for a little bit, but hopefully that will change soon cause he was making so much progress before!  One cool thing my comp and I have been doing recently is doing scripture study with members! Almost every night we will have scripture study with a few members and some investigators! Doing this has helped the members and the investigators learn more about the scriptures! Everytime we read my love and testimony for t...

Olá todos!  These past two weeks have been the same as most of the weeks in quarantine, but they are still good! I'm not in a trio anymore, so it's just me and my trainer now. Elder Bermudez and I have became really good friends over the past couple of weeks and I think being with him 24/7 in a little apartment for 53 days now is the reason why 😂. He is one of the hardest working missionaries I have ever seen and I’m super lucky to be able to learn from him!  This week I really tried to put all of my focus and attention on service. I've noticed through out my mission so far that things are way easier when I’m focused on serving others and not my self. My comp and I made a goal to teach 7 people during this week, members or non members, and we had such good sucess! We ended up teaching 12 people and one of them was a new investigator named Artur! We met him right outside of our apartment!  This new boy that we are teaching is super cool. He lives ri...