In July 2013, Anna traveled across the world to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil with her church for World Youth Day. While Anna explored the beautiful country and people with her church, Filipe’s older brother, Lucas, signed up to be a tour guide for a group of 33 Americans. Due to the amazing way God works, Anna's group leader just so happened to be Filipe's brother and of course Filipe came along to help! After spending a week together and talking throughout the trip, Anna and Filipe hit it off and 8 years later he finally popped the question!