In the fall of 2018, Saleia moved from Philadelphia to Atlanta for college. Routinely, she began to visit the Chick-fil-A right off campus between classes to get her favorite Cobb Salad. One day during her routine visit, Nathanael reached from the behind the counter and inserted the chip of his card to pay for Saleia's Cobb Salad. Though Saleia was super confused and even asked him to take it back; Nathanael smiled and insisted Saleia to simply, "pass the generosity on to someone else". Shortly after, Saleia began working at the same Chick-fil-a. After work, Nathanael began to walk Saleia to her dorm after work, share the Gospel with her, give her tours of Atlanta, and even share meals with her at the 24-hour Chick-fil-A Dwarf House. Through this Nathanael and Saleia continued to build a friendship with one another and in the month of April in 2019 a relationship began.

Three years later, Nathanael and Saleia decided to take a vacation to The Big Island, Hawaii to attend the wedding of Nathanael’s close friend. On Friday, August 6, Nathanael planned a very eventful day for the both of them. The day began with watching a beautiful sunrise along the mountain Mauna Kea (highest mountain from base to peak) followed by getting drinks from Starbucks and having a grand breakfast at an awesome local breakfast restaurant. Afterwards, Nathanael took Saleia to a black sand beach where they also were able to see a volcano, and pull over to the side of the road to pet and feed a few horses. After driving around the island, Nathanael rushed Saleia back to her room to get dressed for a picnic at Pine Trees Beach. To Saleia's surprise, Nathanael proposed and out came the two hiding photographers that he hired to capture the beautiful moment.