It's really amazing how the world is completely different, the people and the culture are completely different, but God and God's love remain the same

At the mission I was aware of my weakness and practiced surrendering to God every day. And I must say that our God does not disappoint!

When you sign up, you may feel like it's not for you, that you haven't thought it through enough, but the best advice anyone can give is to just go. And you pick a whirlwind. Then you know that you are acting in the power of the One who is higher than you

Six weeks in India made me realise how much I love Slovenia: the cleanliness, the nature, the Slovenian language and the traffic. Now that I'm in Slovenia, I'm only just seeing how much I love India: the Indian children, the efficient Indian brooms, the simplicity and openness of the people

Hard work, fighting corruption and a lot of energy invested with minimal progress, this is the reality of their lives. This experience has shattered my idealised expectations of being a missionary. Above all, it has helped me to chart the course of my true vocation, as I am now searching for my Pamplona at home

It's quite hard to put into words all the smiles on your face, the tiny arms that hug you tightly and the sparkling eyes that shine with joy and love. All I can say is that I now understand the volunteers of previous years who say they left a piece of their heart in Madagascar

Madagascar has proved to be a place of great contradictions. People in tattered clothes, but with clarity and determination on their faces. Children with empty stomachs but such sparkling and joyful looks. Shacks in all their western splendour and wooden huts trembling before the coming cyclone. And me, torn between two worlds, and the experience of the mission that connects these two worlds so that they can learn from each other.

One of my most precious memories from Ukraine is to see believers from four different denominations united in a common prayer, a prayer for peace. God really knows how to unite us and bring us together in the most unusual ways