Francis' conversion was taking shape.
We only know some events of this year...
For istance, we know that Francis went to Rome in1206.
Here, maybe because he was unknown in this city, he threw all his money in the alms box, exchanged his clothes for those of a beggar and started to beg in front of San Pietro's.
Another event we know is when Francis was in the plains near Assisi, where he met a leper.
Francis was able to overcome his revulsion and his instinct of self-preservation which would have made him run away, so he came up to the leper and kissed him with love, then he continued on his way.
Not long afterwards, he turned back and realized that the leper was disappeared.
That leper was Jesus Christ, Who had come on the Earth to receive a kiss from His servant.
In his will, Saint Francis talked a lot about this event:
"See in what manner God gave it to me, to me, Brother Francis, to begin to do penitence; when I lived in sin, it was very painful to me to see lepers, but God himself led me into their midst, and I remained there a little while.
When I left them, that which had seemed to me bitter had become sweet and easy"