After five years or so, she began to question what she was doing and was feeling a little uncomfortable in Nigeria. She remembered some Sri Lankan Buddhist friends she had known in Belgium and started to read about Buddhism "I was searching, I wasn't feeling comfortable. So I wrote to a Buddhist temple in Sri Lanka and asked if I could stay there and meditate. They were happy to have a Catholic nun in their midst. I stayed for one year and I became interested in comparative religion."

After her stay in Sri Lanka, Goretti went to the Congo as a nun where she was offered a position as a school librarian and teacher at the International school of Brazzaville. It was there that she learned about the Bahai faith. The director of the school where she taught was a Bahai. " What do you mean by Bahai? I said to him. He said they had literature and I said I wanted to learn about it because I was studying comparative religion. Then I wrote to the convent and told them I was now a Bahai. I stayed in the Congo for four years. In 1996, there was civil war in the Congo and since I was teaching in an American school I was given a visa to come to the USA. The Americans there were told to get out.
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Goretti in Congo