Thank you for letting me know the wonderful news!

Lets start with the basic question, and leave the other one for after: What do you need to do to become a Catholic? Since you are 14, a very important step is to get your parents OK. Look up your local Catholic Church to sign up for instruction to learn about the Catholic faith, because your acceptance into the Church ordinarily happens through your local parish community. There are also many good websites; Catholic Answers and EWTN would be good ones to start with. If you have a Catholic friend who knows their faith well, preferably an adult, ask them to help you along. And stop by the closest Catholic Church in order to speak with Jesus present in the Eucharist, place your trust in him and ask him to guide you.

Now, as regards the vocation. Often, when we first discover Gods call we experience happiness, desire and excitement, which vary in intensity from person to person because some are more emotional and expressive than others. So, these feelings often come with the vocation, but they are not the real sign of the vocation. A nun dedicates her life to Christ, she becomes his Bride, she lives only for him. The desire to do that and having the necessary qualities to do so are the real signs of a vocation. It brings immense joy into your life when you know that Christ loves you personally and calls you, and that you can show your love for him in your prayer and work at every moment of every day, not only when it is easy, and that everything in your life makes sense. This joy is interior, very deep and much more stable than the external, emotional happiness that sometimes goes with it. That is why the saints are so joyful and secure.

To become a nun, the first stage of course would be to become a Catholic. Then, keep very close to Christ in the Eucharist, let your love for him grow and become the stable center of your life. Start finding out more about a nuns life by visiting convents and reading lives of saints. If you have a vocation, you will find that as you read and visit one order will appeal to you in a special way, more than the others; the next step is to look at that one more closely to see if that is where God wants you. Dont worry; you wont be alone in trying to figure this out because every order has a vocation director who specializes in helping people through the discernment process.

God bless,