Then, at the age of 29, she became a Catholic nun in Taichung where she continued to teach in one of her order's schools. Four years later she became the school principal. At the age of 40, Sun left her order and went to eastern Taiwan. "Actually, through all these stages, my dream was always the same," she says--to serve the common people.
回憶起自己廿二歲師大畢業到南投信義山地鄉任教，廿九歲在台中入修會，接著在一所教會女校任教，四年後升任校長，直到四十歲脫下修女服到東部來，「其實每一個階段，夢都是一樣的」，她說。