These sisters joined their order with a firm background of faith, fully aware of what their lives within a religious community would be and what would be required of them. They were dedicated and committed to Christ and saw their Community service as service to him directly. Each was, in her own way, directly tied to and united with Him. Sally's introduction to religious service was largely based on the activities which took place in the basement of the nunnery. She was, in many ways, protected from the actual duties and sacrifices of the nuns who reached out into the community on a daily basis. She was not given, from youth, an accurate picture of convent life and the commitment it required, but rather experienced it through the cleaning of garments, the pressing of frocks. Not reality at all.