Micah Beckstead and Fa‘afeai Anita Muliselu agree it was no coincidence they were led to serve in the same mission.
Brother and sister, the two were adopted young by different families and grew up on separate continents. They had met only once before, when 8-year-old Micah and his family visited American Samoa, where he was born and where Fa‘afeai was living, while she was 11.
About a decade after the brief visit, as a young adult who had studied Spanish in school, Elder Beckstead was surprised to receive a call to the Samoa Apia Mission.
Priscilla Beckstead—the elder’s adopted mother from Orem, Utah—found out through social media that his biological sister had been serving in the same mission he soon would.
“It’s been a testimony to all of us that these calls are inspired,” Priscilla Beckstead told the Church News. “The Lord knows what they need, and the Lord leads them.”
Meeting in the Mission Field
As he started his mission mid-2023, Elder Beckstead was nervous to serve with his biological sister—who had started her mission six months prior—but excited to join together in the work. When they finally saw each other at a mission meeting, Sister Muliselu didn’t hesitate to walk up to him.
“I felt a missing part of me kind of fill in a little,” Elder Beckstead recounted. “We hugged for the longest time, and there were some weird glances, but we didn’t care.”
Sister Muliselu said of the encounter: “I could see the resemblance that he and I had. There was no doubt in my mind I was blessed to reunite with him. No better place than seeing him on the mission with me.”
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