Vocation or call to religious life for me is something to be doing every day. It is not something static, something I decided and it's done. The first, which is not something I decide, but who takes the initiative is God. Is The, Who calls you, and depends on how you listen, and that Secundes that call. But of course, what you may ask and what within you is still a question now is, How do you know it is a call from God?

From my experience I tell you not have very insured, but that was what led me to look. Y underline the word search , es lo que dentro de mí iba sintiendo allá por los 17 años. Y ¿qué sentías?- me preguntaréis- pues, que por entonces yo pertenecía a un grupo de jóvenes que nos encargábamos de enseñar catequesis, de preparar los fines de semana para los chicos con cine, juegos de mesa etc. Yo salía de allí con un sentimiento agradable, me sentía feliz, algo que me llenaba y me hacía preguntarme el porqué de esos sentimientos. Yo los contrastaba con la alegría que podía sentir al salir de paseo con mis amigas, de ir al cine, e incluso del día que podía ver y estar con el chico que me agradaba en aquel tiempo.

A la vuelta del paseo en casa por la noche al acostarme yo sentía que dentro de mí no había esa alegría que había experimentado cuando estaba dedicada a los demás, en este caso a esos chicos de catequesis. Dios siempre se vale de mediaciones para guiarnos, para ir mostrándonos aquello que Él quiere darnos a entender, a conocer. Y puso en mi camino una religiosa, que nos iba ayudando a preparar esas catequesis para los chicos, y con ello surgió en mí otras muchas preguntas al ver a esta religiosa contenta, satisfecha, y sobre todo yo veía que con su vida estaba comunicándose con Dios, porque enseñaba conocimiento, cercanía a Dios, y lo transmitía. A mí me transmitió el deseo de buscar a Dios de verdad en mi vida. Y nada puede importar más que encontrar a Dios. Do you know why? Because He alone gives fullness, and gives happiness to our lives.

The deeper truth of any person is to answer the only question: Where do you want the Lord to serve you, I spend my life? And there they kept coming at me questions:

What can give meaning to my life? What and for whom live my life? Fundamental questions never leave, and in one way or another are still there knocking on our door until we find a way to give answer. This can last for years.

If each of us are not that unique for each answer, we have not opened the gift of life. And a gift is to donate, to give, to express love. We need to dare to seek the answer, take a risk, we do not believe we have already given the answer in a moment. My answer did not end the day I decided to be religious. No, there are many other questions began, and was instrumental in my life before professing the question in the Gospel of John 1:38 Jesus addresses the disciples of John the Baptist. What are you looking for? I felt like a straightforward question to answer myself honestly what he was looking for. Because now, looking back on everything lived experiment that the most important thing is not what I do; teacher, missionary. No, all this basically is the search for God's will in my life, but in day to day in the (stronger) special moments you want something more concrete to me, as might be I left Korea south in 1988.

I assure you that the vocation to religious life is an adventure in search of the living and real God in my life. And that God desires different answers at every moment of our lives, but with something in common; transparent that God loves us and that needs to communicate.

With my experience as a missionary in South Korea, I can say what I have discovered what it is to be a missionary. It is to be there beside people, know them and live your faith with them, learning many things about their culture, and feeling like a child, because in such a difficult and different from our language, you have to start as a child nursery, ah !, and if you take there a long time feel that you lack the power to express yourself as you want. There are limitations, that person has to receive, accept and live with them, to open up to other realities that teach you. Y What do they teach? Pues lo primero, que no somos el ombligo del mundo, que hay otras culturas también validas, y con mucho que enseñar. Aprendes a escuchar, a tener paciencia, y a ver como actúa Dios en las personas. Para mí ha sido una gracia de la que estoy muy agradecida, pues me ha abierto los ojos a lo diverso, a lo diferente, y a valorar lo que otras personas valoran. Creo que todos buscamos ser felices, y tenemos que abrirnos a aquello que nos puede hacer felices, porque nos saca de nosotros mismos y nos lleva a abrirnos a los demás. Ellos piensas que tú das, y yo pienso que ellos me han dado. Es un dar y recibir maravilloso, en el que no tenemos que sentirnos mejores, simplemente, hermanos con un Padre común.

Being a missionary is not what you do, but as you are among those who touches you live. I would live your faith, love of God and pass it on. What greater gift can share that faith in Jesus, who gave Himself for us. I encourage young people to always seek in your life, that question and questions that troubles you, and do not fail to follow ask you, until find them, because your happiness and find them. We all have to be present and thereby achieve the same claims.