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Darin Tingey: All right, we are on with another episode of the Islands podcast. Today we have Cade Price, who I've been begging to come on the podcast for a while because he's got some unique stories. But Cade, give a quick background on you for the listeners.
Kade Price: Yeah. um I guess what do you want to hear? do you want to hear like mission stuff first or you just want to hear like where I'm from and stuff?
Darin Tingey: ah Yeah, where you're from and where you're at now and what do you do for work, that type of stuff.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Okay, cool. Yeah, I'm 30 years old, so I served, I graduated in 2013 and served from 2013 to 2015 and was called to the Marshall Islands Mission, Maduro Mission.
Kade Price: And so I think it's changed names since then, or i don't know, I think, i don't I haven't been paying much attention, but I think it has changed a little bit since then.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Um, but yeah, i I was well aware of what that mission was, um because my dad had served there so we can kind of talk a little bit about that. But, um, yeah, I graduated in 2013 and I'm from Arizona.
Darin Tingey: ah Okay.
Kade Price: i live in Mesa and, um, and you're from Arizona that I, I just, I just realized that when I saw your phone number, what the heck he's here.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I'm from, yeah, um I went to Mountain View High School.
Kade Price: Oh, no no way. yeah I'm right here.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: I'm i'm on Val Vista University.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Yeah, you're right. Right in my neighborhood, basically.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: What what high school did you go to?
Kade Price: I went to Basha down in Chandler.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Yeah, very familiar.
Kade Price: Yeah, that's cool, man.
Darin Tingey: And what do you do for work?
Kade Price: I started my own business a few years ago, about three years ago, and we manufacture custom wheels for off-road cars, so side-by-sides and buggies and now trucks.
Kade Price: So, yeah, it's fun.
Darin Tingey: Oh, nice. Let's go hit the, hit the dunes a lot.
Kade Price: Super fun.
Darin Tingey: i mean, you're in a great place in Arizona. You got a lot of options there.
Kade Price: Yeah, we try to live at the dunes during dune season, so we're always prepping.
Darin Tingey: Uh, that's so cool. Um, so yes, you mentioned your dad served in the mission. So let's talk about that for a second. And maybe when you got your call, because,
Darin Tingey: um And part of the reason I know that besides you telling me just now is I totally stalked on Facebook and found that your dad had served there.
Kade Price: Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But I mean, getting your mission call was probably like so cool for your family. what was that like?
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah, i think so. my dad literally didn't believe it when I read it. And um he's like, no, you didn't. and And I literally had to show him, which was, it was hilarious.
Kade Price: But, so I mean, i feel like a lot of the reason, i mean, obviously I believe, you know, you go where you're supposed to go on a mission. um But my bishop was very, you know, he he always asks a lot of questions about like, what what do you want? Where do you want to go? Yeah.
Kade Price: And I had always grown up hearing the stories from my dad um about the Marshall Islands. And that's what he mostly talked about when he talked about his mission, even though at the time it was a different mission.
Darin Tingey: Thank you.
Kade Price: It was a Micronesia-Guam mission. um But I think he spent most of his time in the Marshall Islands and doing all sorts of cool jumbos and, you know, going from island to island on boats. And he had some really cool stories that I always grew up, ah like, knowing about.
Kade Price: And so it was really deja vu getting my mission call and beginning that process because some of it felt like somewhat, I shouldn't say familiar, but it felt like, I don't know.
Kade Price: I mean, i guess it meant to be right.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Like i was just so stoked on, on that becoming a reality for me, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, all those childhood stories that he told you about and you're like, now I get to go live that.
Kade Price: I mean, from when when I was a little kid, like little, little kid, i would hear those stories and and, and, then it became, you know, part of my life. So I thought that was really cool.
Kade Price: And then I got to go live it on my own, you know, on the mission. So
Darin Tingey: So he didn't believe you, but but once he like, you know, looked at the call and, you know, looked at it again, he was was he just like stoked out of his mind?
Kade Price: yeah, I think he was pretty excited. um I was super excited and, and, um, Yeah, I think he was just happy. You know, we were we were all super happy about it because it was it was a big part of, you know, his his gaining of a testimony and and the stories that he had to share were just awesome.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So um it was fun.
Darin Tingey: So I'm sure he like wanted to teach you Marshallese or hopefully he remembered some of it right away, but.
Kade Price: He remembers it probably better than I do. He he has a good memory. and um Dude, mine's gone. like it's It's really bad. so Yeah, it's bad.
Darin Tingey: you just need to go, you need to take a visit with him back to the Marshalls.
Kade Price: oh I know. That would be fun. That would be super fun.
Darin Tingey: it ah It'll come back like that, don't you?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it really will.
Kade Price: I believe that, too. yeah I feel like it all just would come back and flow.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it's kind of like natural, you know, so like you don't think about it, but then once it you go back, it'll it'll be there. um
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So MTC, when did you go into the MTC?
Kade Price: Yeah. I went into the MTC in September and, um, I spent seven weeks there and I had a small intake I was with. Um, well it wasn't that small. We had two kid of his elders.
Kade Price: Elder, uh, was it 10 thou? And, um, I can't remember the other elder. elder And then we had one elder from, ah not Palau, where was he from? Pohnpei.
Kade Price: And then Sister Tafili from Samoa, Sister Chammings from Australia. And, and then the other So this was all the Marshallese missionaries.
Kade Price: And then there was the Kitabas missionaries, which was Farley, Risk, and Fawcett. And so I spent a ton of time with them because my whole intake was Islanders. And and I felt like an outcast. was the only white guy in there, you know. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: And so I remember like Farley and Fawcett and Risk walking by our classroom and seeing like I'm the only white kid in there. And they're like, oh my gosh, she we we should befriend him because he looks lonely. like and Like we all got along just fine, but it was super fun hanging out with Farley and Risk and Fawcett. Like that was, that was fun.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah. It's funny. You got to be there at the same time as them. Cause when I got an MTC, we, we kind of staggered. So was like marshals came in three weeks before the kid of us intake.
Darin Tingey: but So we've got, we got to know, but not as well as, you know, if you all come in together like that,
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah, we all came in together. Super fun. We had so much fun in the MTC. like It was a blast.
Darin Tingey: did they have room with you guys or no?
Kade Price: they roomed They had their own room, and then I i was roomed with Elder Calio from Ponte Pei. and 10th out and and i can't remember the other kid of this all there's name but he went ah he went to like des moines or whatever an american mission kid abyss or marshall speaking yeah yeah but he was from kid abyss so um that's a dynamic situation right there yeah
Darin Tingey: Marshallese speaking. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: That's unique.
Darin Tingey: yeah Okay. And then were your teachers previous Marshallese speaking missionaries in States or from the Marsh Islands?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: They were um American. I think it was Elder Swain, but not Damon Swain. It was the previous Swain. um and i can't remember his first name. He was a great teacher, super good teacher. And he was, I think he married a Hawaiian girl or something like that. And so i maybe he might have been from Hawaii, but he was in he was at BYU teaching, super awesome teacher.
Kade Price: And then um I can't remember the other teacher's name, but they were good teachers.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: sure
Darin Tingey: Okay. So, so September of 2013, is that right? That's when you went in.
Kade Price: Yep, yep, September.
Darin Tingey: Okay. So you get to the Marshall Islands, like end of October, roughly.
Kade Price: Yeah, I think we did Halloween in the MTC, and then after that, I think we...
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Darin Tingey: So when you went to the Marshall, Marshall Islands, was it President Shah that was your mission president?
Kade Price: No, it was President Weir.
Darin Tingey: president we but
Kade Price: Yeah, he was fresh.
Darin Tingey: ah scott there okay
Kade Price: Yeah. you know
Darin Tingey: so where so what was it like landing in the marsh islands like what was that first few moments for you
Kade Price: Yeah, super surreal. And I feel like everybody probably has a similar experience where you're like in the van or whatever, going to the mission home and driving past all the, you know, super green, right?
Kade Price: Like, you know, all the all the coconut trees and the breadfruit trees.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: And you're like, what the heck? What am I doing? You know, like, it's, I don't know, it's a weird feeling. But you so I remember it. I remember that feeling. You know, I remember that vision.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, so you've been hearing about the mission and now it's like your first time, like we're here.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: This is it. This is the next two years for me.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah. Pretty, pretty wild.
Darin Tingey: and and where was your first area?
Kade Price: My first era was Rita.
Darin Tingey: Okay, so...
Kade Price: was the very end of the island.
Darin Tingey: cool walk me, walk you through your areas real quick and then we'll start, we'll start back and read us.
Kade Price: Yeah. I started in Rita and then I went to Island Labalap with, uh, with Damon Swain. Um, and then after Island Labalap, I went to a train in Long Island in Rydrick.
Kade Price: And, um, I had a son there, Lassike from, um from Australia, New Zealand boat.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Right. Uh, after that, I got called the Wujai to open up Wujai, um, with other two to bow. And which I was a long six months, like really long.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: And then after that, I came back to Ulaga, um was a zone leader with Elder Folger. And then after that, I became AP and I was AP until I died. So it was a super long stretch of of that.
Kade Price: And it super fun.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: its way But it was a long time. Like I think it was eight months. I think I was AP for eight months.
Darin Tingey: Oh man, that is brutal, brutal.
Kade Price: It was long, man. It was so long. But we I had fun because there's so many different – I had so many different companions through that time because we jumped down to Kitabus for a while. We worked there. Then we came back up to Marshalls, and we went back down. to It was a jumping around all over. So that was, like, super fun.
Darin Tingey: That was the when it was fun to be AP when you got to jumble a lot.
Kade Price: totally And I did, man. It was a lot. Like, it was fun.
Darin Tingey: Okay, we'll get to we will get to that. So let's let's start in Rita.
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: um
Darin Tingey: So Main Island Maduro, was it kind of what you expected the Marsh Islands to be like, or were you like, oh, this is kind of different than the stories my dad told me?
Kade Price: Yeah, I kind of... Honestly, it's kind of a weird area, I felt like. But the cool thing was... Well, it's the end of the Island there. And I had, um, elder Bascom as my, my, uh, trainer and he was a great trainer, like super good dude, super obedient. We had fun.
Kade Price: but he taught me a ton and he was pretty new too. He wasn't that he was, i think six months in or maybe three months in when he he was really new. So we were learning together, but he taught me a lot.
Kade Price: Um, we had some cool people at the end of the Island there. Like, um Arlington Teeban lives at the end of the island. I don't know if you know him, but um he was one of my dad's companions.
Darin Tingey: Oh yeah.
Kade Price: So the very first, like, i don't know, I probably showed up on a Thursday or whatever, that very first Sunday, I go up to i'm I'm like, hey, where's Arlington? I was asking Bascom where to find him.
Kade Price: He's like, he's up there. and And so I went up to him. i'm like, hey, do you know my dad? He's like, who's your dad? like elder price he's like oh and he just freaked out and he was so excited to see that ah you know his son made it to the marshall islands and we started going all you know talking about stories and stuff and um and i called him my uncle you know that's my uncle you know so it was super fun like it was a good intro rita is a good intro to the mission like just
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: I mean, there's good work, there's good people, and it's, and you know, nothing crazy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And, ah you know, it was awesome.
Darin Tingey: Arlington Stevens, the man, he's the state president. Again, I think this is second time being state president.
Kade Price: Okay. Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But the dude is just like, such a baller, like was a missionary there grew up there. I think he went to be Hawaii for a while. And then he's just like, got to build Zion and the marsh islands.
Kade Price: Yeah, totally.
Darin Tingey: I just love that because everyone else is like leaving the marsh islands. He's like, nah, we got to build Zion here.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And I'm like, let's go. like this guy's a man.
Kade Price: He really is, man. I feel like a lot of what the church is today is ah some of it has to do with him. Like he pushed a lot along over the last, you know, well now 30, 40 years, you know, so that's, that's pretty cool. You know, he's a good, good guy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, and to meet someone that your dad served with is being so cool. I'm sure that was like, I'm that happened quite a bit for you.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Not really.
Darin Tingey: Running into...
Kade Price: i think it was just him and then I met a few investigators. But other than like him, that was like his closest you know his closest connection.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: So that was cool.
Darin Tingey: And you got to meet him like the first first Sunday. Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, i just walked right up to him. new Zero Marshallese. said, hey, you know my dad? He's like, who's your dad?
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: And then he write you know i said it and he recognized him. It was funny.
Darin Tingey: So fun.
Kade Price: So cool, cool experience.
Darin Tingey: So you were in Rita for one transfer then, right?
Kade Price: I was there for, no, I was there for two transfers because I went to Island Glabalap about two or three months in. so
Darin Tingey: Okay, so you did your first two, roughly your first two transfers there. um a lot of success or
Kade Price: In Rita, yeah, we had, we had a few um good transfers. good investigators. ah My first one, my first baptism was, um her name was Jojo and her husband's name was Dwight.
Kade Price: And they were ah so super young couple that we just taught for, it felt like a long time that we were teaching them. um And, and that was cool. Yeah. That was, that's the most memorable at least.
Kade Price: um
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: But yeah, we had some good, good times there. We jumped
Darin Tingey: How was the language?
Kade Price: Yeah, it was good. I think Elder Bascom, like he taught me how to layer like a lesson, right? like The lessons were easier to speak than just chatting, right?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And that's a good way to start to learn, right? So it was it was good. yeah it It was smooth. It was hard, but but when you teach a lot, you probably learn really fast, you know?
Darin Tingey: yeah
Darin Tingey: would your dad, uh, email you and Marshallese ever like.
Kade Price: I think he sent me one email or maybe a couple letters in Marshallese, but you know how long that takes to try to write in Marshallese. You're dedicating some time to to that if you're going to do that.
Kade Price: No,
Darin Tingey: That's so true. Uh, um, Okay, so Rita to outer Island. And forgive me if you want to stop anything on Rita, but um you were at a point where President Ware was opening all these Outer Islands, right?
Kade Price: no that's cool. Yeah, that's cool.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So like great timing. Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah. It was kind of funny, dude. There was, um, I remember sitting behind zone leaders in church and they're like, bro, price, like it was about time for transfers. And they're like, price, you're going out, dude.
Kade Price: like what are you talking about? What do you know? Like, tell me what you know. And it was elder foot, elder Mason foot. don't know you've met with him, but you should probably get him on.
Darin Tingey: What about
Kade Price: He's a good one. Um, he was like, dude, you're going out, bro. And I was so excited. Right.
Darin Tingey: but but
Kade Price: And, um, so here's the crazy thing. Like, here's what i what I wanted was to go to Wutje because my dad opened Wutje back in 1990. nineteen ninety Like he was one of the he was the first missionary to be on Wutje.
Kade Price: And I knew that they were talking about opening Wutje. And so, um, I didn't end up going there. Like, I think foot went up, went out there. I, I can't remember who opened Wutje, but,
Kade Price: They sent me Idling Lavalap, I guess, you know, try try to get me you know used to everything. And and going out with Swain was so good.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: like and We had so much fun. And that guy's like one of the best people ever, all time. you know eight he's He's such a good person.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah,
Darin Tingey: So was, um, was he already out on eye level up or did you guys go out together?
Kade Price: yeah he was on Idling Lavalap with Wood, Elder Wood, and then I replaced him. And i was fresh, you know, and he was like about to die. Right. Like that was his last area pretty much, you know?
Darin Tingey: okay. Okay.
Kade Price: And, um, so he was, he knew all the, he was like my idol, right? He knew how to speak. He knew all the culture. he knew everything you would want to know as a, as a missionary, you know what i mean?
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: And, um, so yeah, that was pretty eyeopening getting to Island Labelab flying in on that tiny little airport. And, um, Which Outer Islands did you go to
Darin Tingey: I went to Lai on the Marshall side and then Mayena on the Kiribati side.
Kade Price: Okay, that's right. That's right.
Darin Tingey: so um
Kade Price: Okay, cool.
Darin Tingey: i've I've heard Love Love is one of the most beautiful islands. what Would you agree with that based off of all the islands you've seen?
Kade Price: Yeah, it is. It's super pretty. Super um long. like That whole stretch, that main stretch is super long. like to get from that airport in, I think it's Eirik, um, all the way to Boj was like, I don't know, it's on a truck. It was probably 20 minutes.
Kade Price: And then on a bike, you're an hour, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: um so that's a super pretty Island, really tall coconut trees, like the tallest that I've ever seen, you know?
Darin Tingey: And
Darin Tingey: Is that because it was like got a love bunch of rain you think is just so green or?
Kade Price: I don't know, but the marshals were always really green compared to Kitabas.
Darin Tingey: Yes, yeah.
Kade Price: but Way greener.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, definitely a lot more rain in the marshals. Okay.
Kade Price: Yeah. Like, you remember on Majuro, like, towards Laura and Arak and Ajil Taki, that whole stretch right there was very similar to Island Glabalap.
Darin Tingey: okay
Kade Price: So it was, like, long, you know, green, luscious. That is very similar. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Did you feel like, I mean, coming from Rita, probably not, but did you feel like there was a ah good amount of people on I Love Love? Or did you feel like it was just very few?
Kade Price: No, there there wasn't that many. I mean, yeah, there wasn't that many. In Borge, there was probably 50 or 60 adults, you know what i mean?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And then there's a bunch of kids, but there's not that many people there and in Borge. And that was super fun part of the mission. like The culture was super...
Kade Price: deep and having swaying there was the right, like he was just so into the culture and stuff and the people.
Darin Tingey: What, ah how would you describe Alain Lavalup, like just, you know, from your memories, how would you, how would you describe it? Not just, I guess, physically, but culturally and and everything like that.
Kade Price: Yeah. The cool thing, like sway mentioned in the podcast, ah or Island Labelab was, a place of the Lords, right? Like is the great Island. And I think a lot of the, um Lords and Kings or whatever of the Marshall islands originated in Island level up.
Kade Price: So that was cool. And they took a lot of pride in that too. Um, and then there was like a really nice property across the way, a from bridge there was like, i wouldn't call it.
Kade Price: It was a really nice property. It was gated. It was super weird in an island, in ah off an outer island setting. Like, it didn't fit. It didn't belong. But it was, you know, that's that's what they did for their kings, you know what i mean?
Kade Price: Slum
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it's like everyone's living in these small homes.
Kade Price: houses, yeah.
Darin Tingey: They just have this super nice house another island. You're like, what?
Kade Price: Yeah, I think they had, like, a lawnmower there and stuff. Like, it was, it was like, cut all nice with... brick wall and a gate and everything big old property and so yeah I'm
Darin Tingey: did Did you guys do a lot of fishing on the island?
Kade Price: Yeah, that island, um I think, I don't think Swain liked to fish very much, but I think after he left, I fished a lot. Like I, I fish, I definitely fished a lot that right outside the house, it was like 15, 20 feet to the, to the water.
Kade Price: So we would like sleep to the sound of rocks being, you know, moved and in and out of the the ocean, you know? And that was just super nice.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: But ah I would fish almost every night. and And I caught a lot of stuff just with a stick, you know, stick and a hook. And a hermit crab bait, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the herrera, I love that.
Kade Price: ah hermit crab bait, is you just rip them out. Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's so funny. ah
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: and And what was church like? Did you guys have a lot of people coming?
Kade Price: Yeah, I remember they just did church right outside. There was like a tent kind of thing, canopy and a little makeshift podium. And then we had some plastic chairs and everything.
Kade Price: And i mean, it was probably between 10 and 30 people on average, but a lot of kids. And then one week we had, can't remember what it was.
Kade Price: Was it Easter? it might have been Easter that we had like 50 or something people there. And that was like a record. And we were like so stoked on it, you know, to see that big number there.
Darin Tingey: Let's go.
Kade Price: was Yeah, we were all stoked. and People had come across from the other island to our church, which was cool because we had been like proselyting over there. We had been putting in a lot of effort to get over there because you had to row a boat across this super. Now looking back, like the fact that we,
Kade Price: went across that canal. i shouldn't call it a canal. it was like a big break in land. We could easily got swept swept away to sea, like easily.
Kade Price: And um it's super sketchy. So if there's I'd be surprised if they're still letting missionaries do that. um it's Because there's a lot of current through that section. And I just can't believe that we did it not knowing how dangerous it was, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: We would just row a canoe across, like just row as hard as we could. And it was super cool and pretty. You could see a hundred feet down, but you could get swept away so easy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Would you guys do that weekly to go to the other islands to teach?
Kade Price: i think it was pretty, wouldn't say weekly, probably every other week. And yeah, it's probably every other week. And we had, so what happened was after Swain left, there was a Neuroidge that died Maduro and they had a funeral in Island Glabalop in Borge. And so Borge like shut down completely it because it was just like funeral time. Right.
Darin Tingey: Amen.
Kade Price: And they do the three day funeral thing, but like, it was like weeks of dead. Like nobody wanted to study because everybody was prepping something like oh, we're making Jackie's or we're making flowers or whatever it is for the funeral. So like nobody really wanted to, um, like have a lesson with us or talk to us about church stuff because they were like, oh, we're busy. We're pre we're prepping.
Kade Price: So we would, we ran across, we would go all the way to Eidrich or we'd go across that little canal to the other side of, you know, Island Labelap and, teach over there. And that was super cool. Like,
Kade Price: was a different It was a completely different island. you know They had their own you know their own friends, their own people. their own It was just a different section of island. So that was kind of cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, and pretty cool that they came for Easter. i mean to like i mean, obviously Easter and Christmas are two biggest church holidays.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: and um But even for them to just come up with that, it's a big deal, which I think is really cool that you got them over there. Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, it was. it was It was really cool, actually. they um they had to come They had to make a lot of effort because that island is long. like You had to go so far to get to the next house once you got across that canal.
Kade Price: So they made a lot of effort to get there, and so that was always cool to see. And they had sweet potatoes over there, too, so that was cool. like we would go Yeah, they had sweet potatoes.
Darin Tingey: No
Kade Price: That was the only spot in my mission that they had sweet potatoes. so
Darin Tingey: way.
Kade Price: I remember that.
Darin Tingey: Did they grow kind of everything else? Did they grow you know bananas, breadfruit? Did they grow taro?
Kade Price: Not much in the marshals from what I remember.
Darin Tingey: Yeah,
Darin Tingey: yeah I remember going to Kitabas and like tons of taro, but like...
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah, they didn't do that much in the marshals. I don't think they liked it.
Darin Tingey: It must be they don't like it. And I remember like in Kitabas, they like would tie their pigs up to the trees, right? So the pig would never leave and would never go eat the taro.
Darin Tingey: But in the marshals, at least on what I saw online, like let the pigs roam free. So they just kind of eat whatever. so you couldn't grow a ton that was on the ground for pig to get into.
Kade Price: Yeah. That makes sense. Yeah. Yeah, that makes sense. That makes...
Darin Tingey: um
Kade Price: Yeah. Not a lot of tarot.
Darin Tingey: But you would... You would think they would grow more given that it rains more in the Marshall Islands, but I guess ah they're just so reliant on that jabam, you know?
Kade Price: think
Kade Price: I know. They...
Kade Price: I know. That and the breadfruit, dude. They just eat so much breadfruit out there. Like...
Darin Tingey: So much buiro.
Kade Price: yeah butirro yeah Yeah, we ate so much buiro in Wujay. It was gnarly.
Darin Tingey: did ah i think laba Did you has have a lot of food at the local you know little stores?
Kade Price: Yeah, we had to go all the way to Eirik to get most of our groceries. And um I just remember doing pancakes all the time. I don't remember eating much. And then I would fish for i would fish in the evening, so i'd eat fish at night.
Kade Price: But i don't remember eating like anything there, which is kind of weird.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So just, yeah, just staying skinny.
Darin Tingey: Just fish and rice and pancakes.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, okay. So you were there for how how long?
Kade Price: I was there for three months, I believe. Yeah. I was there for three months. And they had two.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: So i I said they had a they had a death. Then they had another death that was another Iroj or something. And so the island was shut down for... After Swain left, that whole next transfer, with i had um Parkinson, Tice Parkinson.
Kade Price: he Me and him literally were just like trying to teach people that didn't want teach didn't want to study with us. We did have those baptisms. We had a baptism from a guy in Iaric and then another baptism or two Borj. So that was like a big deal because...
Kade Price: Swain had worked really hard to make sure that those people were in good hands with us. You know what I mean?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And and and they did. They progressed and they were such good people. like they You could tell that they wanted to you know be faithful and change their lives. So that was really cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. The, anytime there's a death or a new anointing of another chief or something else, it's just, those weeks are just gone.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: It's what I like to call a cultural, uh, transfer.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah. And looking back, like I should, i should have been okay with it. um But when you're there and you're in the moment, you're like kind of frustrated, you know, but like, you got to respect the culture.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Like that comes, you know, pretty much first over anything. So they're going to, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. So I love a lot you there for a while and then you get transferred off. Did they tell you by radio that you're being transferred?
Darin Tingey: is that how you guys communicated?
Kade Price: I can't remember, dude. I honestly can't remember. i think we had... yeah I can't remember at all how they how they said, hey, you're getting on the next balloon, you know? um But I had to... Let's see. What did... what did How did we... Oh, how I flew out of there was they couldn't land for some reason Eirik.
Kade Price: So we got on a boat and went all the way to... What's called? bushja Which is like the most northern end of that island. So... that was like another jumbo to a place where i was like, holy cow, there's another whole group of people here.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: it you know, it still looked like Eiling Labalot, but it was just people that we had never seen before. And, um, we waited there for the balloon for four hours or whatever, you know, it's, you're just sitting there hanging out, talking to people and stuff. So,
Darin Tingey: Yeah, love it so big that you could literally put missionaries on each of those islands and you guys can never see each other.
Kade Price: Yeah, seriously, it is. It's really big. It's huge.
Darin Tingey: it's And and it's like, do you, you know... There's not enough time for you to go to all of those islands within a week to teach, you know, but it's also not enough people to send multiple sets of missionaries out there.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, for real.
Darin Tingey: Is that like in between?
Kade Price: They're really small. So... Yeah, it is. i think that's a good layout, though, putting out elders in Borge, and then they can go to Eirik, and then they can jump across to, I think it's called NAWare, or something like that. Pick a isle. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: did Was Kelly Slater's ah in place there when you were there?
Kade Price: yeah Yeah, there's resort there on the north end of the island. When I was flying out of Ouija, there was like four white dudes on the plane. and i was talking to them a bunch of about it.
Kade Price: It could have been his boys. you know like i I don't think it was Kelly Slater.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: I didn't know Kelly Slater. i didn't know of him at the time, I don't think. I should have. but ah like These guys, you could tell, were like full surfer bros.
Kade Price: They were out there shredding.
Darin Tingey: So crazy. i I didn't believe when the missionaries told me like, yeah, there was a resort on the, on the level of like, no, there's not, there's no way dude.
Kade Price: Yeah. They call it a resort. We don't know what it actually is. It could be just like couple rooms. I mean,
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Resort. I've looked it up. It's like a, it's like a hotel. It's nice.
Kade Price: okay.
Darin Tingey: It's like a big, it's like a big house basically.
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Um,
Kade Price: Yeah, I don't know what it is exactly, but yeah.
Darin Tingey: It just seems like a really far place to go to for waves that you could probably get somewhere else.
Kade Price: Resorts.
Kade Price: find elsewhere. Yeah. It's like really hard to get to. Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I don't know why they decided that.
Kade Price: Think of the hardest place in the world to get to and put a resort there.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. I think that's probably part of the pitch. It's like, it's the most remote place ever to serve, you know?
Kade Price: It is. Yeah. It, and it literally is probably.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So it's so hard to get there and the, and the planes barely ever fly. yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, exactly. you might You might be stuck out there for a month.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: um Okay, so you head back to Maduro, back to Long Island. Is that correct?
Kade Price: Long Island and I was, yeah, I had to train a a missionary, La Sique. Dude,
Darin Tingey: La Sique. I've heard many of stories of La Sique.
Kade Price: he is a wild man. is my wild child and I loved it. was so fun.
Darin Tingey: So were you, ah did you live in the chapel house in Long Island?
Kade Price: We lived in the chapel house. Yeah, that tiny little thing behind there.
Darin Tingey: Like, yeah.
Kade Price: and yeah, it was good good times. Good times.
Darin Tingey: So you were so close to the mission office. um You know, being on Outer Island, did you come in and like, did you talk to president after and like give him an update on the island or did they like maybe APs?
Kade Price: ah I can't remember that really. um But probably. We probably relayed the message about Island Level Up. you know it was It was steady steady growth.
Kade Price: you know Just a good place to be for sure. so um yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah. And I mean, it's just such a change, like, you know, going back to Maduro after an outer island. it's just like so unique. Yeah.
Kade Price: It is. It's a weird feeling. It's almost boring. You know, it's just a different way of life. So you have to make it. The cool thing about being on the main island is there's so many more people and there's members like an island lab lab. There's only, you know, five, 10 members or whatever.
Kade Price: Then you get back to the main island and you have real food and real members that are like super fun to hang out with and really nice. You know, like they just, they want to be around to you.
Kade Price: They want to have dinners with you and stuff. So that's the biggest like culture change. I think is people want, want you around rather than like give you the side eye. You know what i mean?
Darin Tingey: and And they do church, like they run church, so you don't have to run it, which running church is exhausting.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: It can be, yeah, for sure.
Darin Tingey: ah It's really cool. It's really cool. But man, it can get so tiresome.
Kade Price: Yeah, it
Darin Tingey: ah and So how is training? How was that for you?
Kade Price: Training was super fun with Lasique. He made it fun. ah He was wild. like i I barely could control him. Um, he just wanted to have fun, always wanted to play volleyball, like every possible opportunity we're playing volleyball or basketball and he was super talented.
Kade Price: Um, and so he would always show everybody up on, in basketball and volleyball and, and, it was fun. We had a good time and, ah hopefully I taught him something, but as a trainer, as a, as a six, I think I was only, i wasn't even six months, you know, was doing everything that good, but,
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: But, ah you know, we we we had fun and we we taught a lot, too. We taught a lot of people. So, good.
Darin Tingey: I mean, him, him liking basketball and volleyball is great. Cause that's the two sports they play in the Marshalls plus baseball, I guess.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's like, I feel like every evening, especially on the outer round, you probably felt this is like, you know, you do your work in the morning and everyone kind of sits around in the afternoon and then evening. It's like,
Kade Price: Game on.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, we're playing basketball or volleyball, one of the two
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah. Game on. Yeah, totally.
Darin Tingey: Every evening. It's so fun.
Kade Price: Yep. Yep. It's one of the best parts of it, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, absolutely. ah So did you do Lasique's training for 12 weeks? Yeah. twelve weeks
Kade Price: um No, I don't think so. I think I only spent probably six weeks with him. And um let's see. Yeah, because I got called to go to Wojai. And that was really random.
Kade Price: And I was sad because I was having so much fun with Les CK. But I was also like, what is Wujiai? And nobody knew what Wujiai was. Like, dude, you're going out and you're opening an outer island that's never had missionaries on it.
Kade Price: And that was weird. you know And I remember telling people in Long Island, like just good investigators or good you know people, like, hey, I'm going to Wujiai. And they're like, Wujiai?
Kade Price: Why? like what What are you going to Wujiai for? And a lot of them thought I was going to Wuzha Island, which would be maybe more realistic.
Darin Tingey: Yeah,
Kade Price: I don't know. And they're like, no, I'm going to Wuzha. And they're like, oh, that's weird. You know, kind of a out. It feels like an outcasted island almost.
Darin Tingey: yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: Super way out there. You know, i think.
Darin Tingey: Cabin metal.
Kade Price: Yeah, it's far. it's It's far out there, dude. um And so. I just remember getting that call and being super nervous because I was opening it.
Kade Price: ah And I was only six six months out or whatever. and i was going to be with Tui Tupou, Elder Tutubau, they called him.
Darin Tingey: suluba
Kade Price: and And yeah, that was awesome.
Darin Tingey: Where was he from? From Kiribati?
Kade Price: No, Tutubau was from Tonga, or his family was from Tonga. But he was from, actually, Australia.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: he He's... Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Okay, so you go and level up and then one transfer in Long Island and then they're like, get out of here, Elder Price.
Kade Price: Yeah, it was short. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You're going back to an outer island. No, I'm just kidding.
Kade Price: Yeah. No, it's what it was. It was banished. And...
Darin Tingey: ah We're sending you the furthest, most remote Outer Island that we have missionaries on.
Kade Price: and
Kade Price: And good luck.
Darin Tingey: oh
Kade Price: There's no members and there's nobody that wants to study with you. So good luck.
Darin Tingey: a ah So it's it's funny because, like I said, we this is we haven't had anyone on the podcast that has served on Wijai. Partly because there's very few people that have served on Wijai.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Okay. You know, if it's open, is it open right now?
Darin Tingey: it's It's not. um when they
Kade Price: Okay.
Darin Tingey: When they reopened the mission post-COVID, they did send the elders, the APs out there. Cannon Weaver, he I did a podcast with him. You should listen his. He went out to Cannon Weaver.
Kade Price: Who was it? What was his name? Okay. I saw that one. Okay.
Darin Tingey: He went to Wujiai, and I think he was there for two weeks. ah Not planned two weeks.
Kade Price: Oh, yeah.
Darin Tingey: So...
Kade Price: Dude.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: If you go there, you are lucky to get back.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, so so they went to go check it out.
Kade Price: Seriously.
Darin Tingey: um
Kade Price: Okay.
Darin Tingey: And when i when I served in 2016, they had just closed with like maybe a trend a transfer, or yeah, a transfer before I got there.
Kade Price: Really? Okay.
Darin Tingey: basically,
Kade Price: Do you know why?
Darin Tingey: they like had no work going on there.
Kade Price: your Yes.
Darin Tingey: they came They came back like, you know, hairs all long, beards, whatever.
Kade Price: Yeah, dude. Yeah, that's what Wish I does to you, man.
Darin Tingey: man and they And the elder that served on Wujai, he eventually became AP. And I think he just told president, like, just don't open Wujai.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah, it's tough.
Darin Tingey: but Which is really sad, because I really wanted it to be reopened. because and we i mean, I want to hear your opinion on this, but I served on E-Buy.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It was my very first area. And you have Lai, and wizai who are which islands are both relatively close to Ebi.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so they send all their kids there to go to high school. And so you do have a lot of these kids that come over and stay with member families, eventually get baptized. Now they don't all go back to which but I'm like, man, lie has ward.
Darin Tingey: It was a branch when you were there, but they have a ward now.
Kade Price: yeah
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And it's like, you have this strength because they're so close to E-Buy. it's like, why Wizzai that way? You know, like ah you you would think it would just be the same effect, but it's not.
Kade Price: Yeah. yeah
Kade Price: Yeah. It's weird. Yeah. if which i it's It's weird. Like from a for stat statistics standpoint, it definitely doesn't make sense to have elders on Wujjai.
Kade Price: But if you want to have boys... I should say, stroke like struggle and have a really hard, i don't know, experience, like, okay, then put them on Wujai because that's exactly what it was. It was so hard, man.
Kade Price: Especially if you're motivated and like ah ambitious, I guess, like it will challenge that for sure. And so if you don't get the right missionaries on that island,
Kade Price: that's exactly what could happen. They're going swimming and there's, then they've got beards and they're hanging out, you know, there's hanging out.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: That's all they're doing. So it's,
Darin Tingey: say So you flew to Wujai.
Kade Price: no, I went on a boat.
Darin Tingey: You made it on...
Kade Price: I went on a boat from Ebi.
Darin Tingey: No way.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Let's go. okay so you flew to E-Buy on Air Marshall or are United?
Kade Price: Yeah. yeah oh no Dude. I can't remember.
Darin Tingey: and
Kade Price: I can't remember. I think it was a big plane.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, you might have...
Kade Price: Yeah, it was a big plane. It was a big plane, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Okay, so you flew an island hopper to E-Buy. Did you spend a few nights there or was it like next day?
Kade Price: Yeah. I spent, I think, two or three nights there because they were prepping a Tima boat, big coconut boat, ah at in Ibai to go to Ujai, Woto, I think. I think Woto, maybe not, but...
Darin Tingey: It makes sense that they got all three, yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah. So um I spent a few nights in Ebai. That's when I met Tuitupo. I think he was there already. And then met a few other missionaries there, had some fun.
Kade Price: um And then we took we got on that Tima, and that thing was – that was a nightmare of a scenario. Have you been on one of those things, on of those big boats?
Darin Tingey: I didn't ride on one, but one came to lie and I went up on it and saw it.
Kade Price: Probably the same one, Probably the same I can't remember what, but we probably stayed up way too late in E-Bai, the night before we were supposed to leave.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. yeah probably
Kade Price: right So we get up the next day, we're tired, and um and we get on that boat and it feels like we're on that boat for like three or four hours before it takes off right and there's a thousand people on it like every single person it had to be like kids were going back to the islands uh for summer yeah that i think that's what it was because that would align with the timing and so there was so many people on this boat and so me and tutu bao were like dude we gotta
Darin Tingey: For summer. Yeah. yeah
Kade Price: Oh, you know what else? Right after we took off, the bathrooms, they were like up the stairs. They had like a backflow, like an overflow.
Darin Tingey: but
Kade Price: And so there's like poop water coming down the stairs and getting all over everybody's stuff. Like everybody. It was all over. It was disgusting.
Kade Price: And we're like, what is going on here? And ah so we move our we move all of our stuff into the engine room. so that we could like get away from it. And, it was so hot in there and it was, it was hot and loud. Like all, that's all I remember.
Kade Price: And I remember just like, at least it's not poop water, you know? It was crazy. I couldn't believe it. And so we just bunked up in there. We were the only dudes in there. And like every once in a while, somebody come check on us be like, you guys good.
Kade Price: It was so loud in there. I can't believe we did that, but.
Darin Tingey: most people are like sitting on the, just sitting on the floor, right? Outside and stuff.
Kade Price: Yeah, on the floor. There was like some benches, if I remember. But like I'm telling you, that poop water got everywhere, dude. It was flowing down the steps. They had a backup or something.
Kade Price: So or like like that is a nightmare scenario. We're super tired, super hot. um And so we just were like, hey, we're bailing to the engine room. And I just remember both of us like knocking out and putting like our backpacks over our heads so that we didn't have to like listen to the engine because it was so loud.
Kade Price: Um, but that was a funny experience. Uh, and then the next day we try to sleep the next day. it was probably, I think it was a 14 or 15 hour ride out to, out to Wojja. And I think we went straight to Wojja. We didn't even go to Lai.
Kade Price: Um, yeah, I don't remember going to Lai. I don't even remember seeing Lai. Oh, I, I can't remember. I don't think we saw Lai. But, um, anyways, yeah, we got off, uh,
Kade Price: You know, it came all the way to get to Wujia, you have to go way around the island. So you like see the island. You're like, yeah, we're here. we're almost there. No, you have like two more hours of like going way past it just to enter.
Darin Tingey: Really?
Kade Price: Yeah, just to enter into it. So if you pull it up on the map, you'll see like the very south section of the island is where everybody lives.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And there's only a few hundred people there, like couple hundred.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Kade Price: and It's really, really small island. um But you have to go way past it to enter in right by those two. There's like a little channel.
Darin Tingey: I see it.
Kade Price: that's That's exactly where the boat has to go through.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And so then you come all the way back down the other way. I swear it's two at at least two hours. So you think you're there and you're not. Yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it was such a unique atoll because it's like so long, you know, but like not not really, not land wise, but the coral reef, yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, shape.
Kade Price: yeah the shape The shape of is long, yeah.
Darin Tingey: So you can't cross over on a on a boat.
Kade Price: No.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So you enter in right there if you see that channel in between those two islands. And then you come all the way back in from the Yahr side. so um And then, yeah, getting off the boat and everything, that was a really weird experience because it was nothing like Island Glabalab.
Kade Price: ah It was just way different. And people were like eyeing us. And you know they were i i want to say they weren't happy to see us, to be honest. They they probably were not stoked that missionaries were there.
Kade Price: I remember the first night, like once we got all of our stuff, we brought a good amount of groceries and stuff to our house. And they kind of showed us our house and everything. That first night, there was this young kid that stole a bunch of stuff from us.
Kade Price: And so we had to like go look and, you know, talk to people. They're like, hey, who stole our stuff? Can we get it back? Like he stole a bunch of stuff. And it's such a small island. Like everybody, i feel like everybody knew who it was, you know.
Kade Price: It was kind of fun.
Darin Tingey: Did you get your stuff back?
Kade Price: Yeah, we actually did. He returned it and he was like, I'm so sorry. Like, you could tell he was like, the whole island shunned him. You know, they were like, they're like, shame on you, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Like, yeah these are, yeah, these are servants of the Lord, and you are stealing from them.
Darin Tingey: We're talking about it.
Kade Price: You're going to hell, you know? Like, that kind of stuff. So you could tell he was like, when he returned that stuff, he was like, head hanging down. We're like, we're it's okay, dude. Like, we're We get it. It's all good.
Kade Price: And we ended up becoming super good friends with him, which was funny. So he would hang out with us a bunch.
Darin Tingey: It's so funny. but Like you said, like people weren't probably happy to see you guys, right? Oh, it's the Mormon missionaries.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But someone steals from like, no, you do not steal from the missionaries.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like yeah it's just so funny yeah that respect, the respect is still there for you, you know?
Kade Price: Yeah. They have good morals. Yeah.
Kade Price: Totally. Yeah, we definitely had that. We definitely had that.
Darin Tingey: Whose house did you stay at?
Kade Price: We stayed at this house. It was Joseph and Elizabeth. And they ah vacated the house that they were living in and went to a different house just for you know just for us. um So I think their family owned multiple houses on the island or whatever. And so they just...
Kade Price: jumped right over into their other house. I'm sure they were plenty happy to, to, you know, get that rent check. Cause that, that rent check is probably really, really good, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah. this
Kade Price: So
Darin Tingey: Absolutely. It is like, we don't have to collect coconuts ever again.
Kade Price: yeah, ah exactly. That like with the snap of finger, they're the richest on the Island. So, um, but they were not, there was no members.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Were they, they weren't members though.
Kade Price: There was not a member on the whole Island. Um, there was actually one,
Darin Tingey: Huh.
Kade Price: member, but he was like way less active and, and like actually like a teacher in one of the, I think Protestant or something. So he was baptized and then he moved on and stuff.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: So
Darin Tingey: And what was your what was your house like? Describe your house to me.
Kade Price: yeah, it was just like a brick house that they built. There were a bunch of houses that were the same and I think they built them in the, I don't know who built them, but they were all built under some sort of organization, right? Because were all the same.
Kade Price: They had the same roof, same you know brick structure, same windows. you know You want to say is like a donation from Taiwan or U.S.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Peace Corps or something like that.
Darin Tingey: Love from Taiwan.
Kade Price: Yeah, exactly. It was like ah somewhat probably 20 to 30 years before that, they were all all built on the island. And I want to say there was probably 30 or 40 of them that were similar.
Kade Price: And then the rest were like the rest of the homes were like like
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: you know more built by the locals, right built by the natives.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. So was it one big room or...
Kade Price: It was actually three rooms. There was one entry room that was pretty wide, and then there was where we slept, and then there was like our storage room. Yeah, it was very simple.
Darin Tingey: Okay. And did you sleep on ah on a Jackie or did you sleep like on some sort mattress?
Kade Price: Yep. I slept on a floor. Yeah, I'm on a Jackie. And i loved it. like i i got I got used to it from Eiling Lavalap.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: um So we were I was used to it. And Tupou was not used to it.
Darin Tingey: Well, it's like the Jackie, it's like,
Kade Price: even He hated it.
Darin Tingey: I mean, the so for those that listening that don't what that is, it's just the leaf woven mat they sleep on. um But it doesn't give you really much padding. it's just It's just there to separate you from the concrete floor.
Kade Price: Yeah, ah that's it.
Darin Tingey: But you do get used to sleeping on the ground after you've done it for a while.
Kade Price: I think I liked it at some point, dude.
Darin Tingey: and Oh, yeah, for sure. and it's a cool thing, right? Like, we'll sleep it on the ground.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like, it sucks, but, like, it's cool.
Kade Price: Yeah. I think I began to like it where i was like, man, this is comfy, you know, which is weird.
Darin Tingey: you know
Darin Tingey: the The things that were really comfy too were like the oh like the plywood kind of big benches that all the ladies like lay on outside.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: what I'm talking about?
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah. Well, in Kitabas, the Booyahs, right? Is that what they're called?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kade Price: The Booyah? Those are great.
Darin Tingey: I know. Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: and know Yeah, you just kind of embrace the island life and it's just fun. And just, you're just like, this is how it is and it's great.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so what about bathroom, shower, that type of stuff?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: yeah There was a little outhouse that had ah really gnarly like concrete toilet, right?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: i I don't even know if there was a toilet seat. I can't remember. There was a hole in the ground with like a volcano in the ground, you know, and then a bucket showers, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So we actually had a pontoon there and yeah we had a pontoon there and a well too, but we used the pontoon quite a bit.
Darin Tingey: Well water or water from pontoon?
Darin Tingey: Yep.
Kade Price: We didn't have any shortage of water. So yeah, it rained pretty good amount while we were there and
Darin Tingey: Rained a lot.
Kade Price: Yeah, there was a there was a, I call it a famine. I was there for six months. or Yeah, I was there for a full six months. So the first three months, there was like no What was it? There was like, oh, the boat hadn't come. the Basically, the island didn't restock on anything. like from the time that From the time I got there, they restocked.
Kade Price: And then after that, they it took forever. like Everybody was out of rice. Everybody ran out of rice. Everybody ran out of flour. We ran out of that stuff. So we were like going hungry, and we didn't really know how to live off the land the way the natives do.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And so they were still feeding us pretty good, but it got to the point where we were pretty hungry and we didn't have really anything. I mean, I got good at making pancakes, but they were probably gross, you know?
Darin Tingey: Well, the best part is like the flower. i don't know if this was for you, but lying. Like the flower all the the bugs in it.
Kade Price: Bugs, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: yeah you just Sift the bugs out. do Those little black bugs, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Just like in the larva, just quiet and you're like, oh, this is disgusting, but you know, you gotta eat it.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: is one of those.
Darin Tingey: You're not gonna like toss the so go to toss a flower out. It's just like rare that it's even on the islands.
Kade Price: I know. Seriously. we just sift out what you could. And then if you did eat a bug, and it's whatever. Protein. protein
Darin Tingey: Yeah, exactly. ah
Kade Price: there
Darin Tingey: So did you guys fish a lot then to try and supplement?
Kade Price: Yeah, we did actually. Me and Tui Tupo fished lot. We did. So we would throw – the houses had like donated LED lights on them or whatever. So we pulled one off the house or two of them off the house.
Darin Tingey: yeah.
Kade Price: And then we pulled the batteries out of ah solar ah the solar unit. And then we threw them in a backpack. So we both had an LED light with wires to the backpack with a good battery.
Kade Price: And then we would go out at night and do the whole, ah I can't remember what it's called, but use this machete to to bonk fish on the head.
Darin Tingey: oh yeah
Kade Price: We did that a lot. And it was super fun. Like that was one of my most favorite, most memorable experiences was doing that. And we did it a lot, like a lot, a lot. Because there's good it was good eating.
Kade Price: And it was kind of fun. you know We'd take the kids out there, make the kids carry the bucket, and then we would just go slash and whatever we could find, and then the kids would just grab it and throw in the bucket. so
Darin Tingey: I always wanted to do that style fishing. I never did it while out there. And it's one of my biggest regrets is not doing that because I'd always heard about it, but i never got to do it.
Kade Price: It's so fun. It really is so cool, bro. You go up, you walk you you have that light, and no matter what size the fish is, like we would find little fish, big fish, we'd move rocks and stuff.
Kade Price: No matter what size the fish was, that fish would just freeze when it saw that light. It would just pause there. And so we would go in shin high water, whatever, ankle high, and just go and bang fish with the back of the machete. and you know You don't want to cut the fish, so you just use the sharp end and
Darin Tingey: Uh huh.
Kade Price: and just bonk them and then throw them in the bucket, dude. And we had good, we ate good when we did that, you know. That was the best food that we could get because there was nothing else, man.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Was that on the lagoon side or the ocean side? Yeah.
Kade Price: That was on the Yar side, so lagoon side, yeah.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: Yeah, and you could walk forever on that island.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: If you pull up the map, you could walk forever.
Darin Tingey: Really?
Kade Price: You could walk really far. So we yeah we would wait until it was low tide and go do that. And that was one of my favorite, best experiences, you know.
Darin Tingey: Nothing better than like, yeah yeah you're on the island, like a full moon and you're like fishing out there, know, just there's nothing better. and you And at the time you're just like, no one that I know will experience this like ever.
Kade Price: nobody can do it
Kade Price: know even still yeah even still like those memories are like nobody can experience what that is and that's what's crazy about it all this the whole mission is that you have so many of those experiences that it's not possible for you to experience that unless you're there like that's it so that which is cool it's super unique mission but um
Darin Tingey: It's like so rare. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. I mean, and Wizai just in general, like, I'm just looking at the map right now and it's like, that island is so tiny.
Kade Price: It's tiny.
Darin Tingey: Lai was the same thing, super tiny, but I mean, anything I think Wizai smaller as far as ah the one island.
Kade Price: We could walk from... Basically, there's one road on the Yar side.
Darin Tingey: Path.
Kade Price: Yeah, one path.
Darin Tingey: Path.
Kade Price: Yeah, one dirt path um on the Yar side that goes across the island.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: You could walk it in 20 minutes. The whole thing, from end to end.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: And we knew everybody. And so... we I mean, we became friends with literally every single house. So we knew the names of every single house, and we knew most of the kids' names too. like we just You just knew everybody. it's like It's like your ward like your ward now.
Kade Price: You probably know most of the people in your ward. Imagine that's everybody that exists, right?
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: That's it. and So everybody knew everybody, and that's exactly how I would – like tell people that ask about it. It's like, imagine your ward. That's the whole island.
Kade Price: Everybody, you know, no more.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Well, and Lai was so similar in that way.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And I'm like, man, I just talked to everyone like three times a day. You know, yeah I just, you see everybody every day.
Kade Price: Yeah. Seriously. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: and you know, it's, I mean, work was a little bit easier on Lai.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like, tell me, like, why was I so difficult? Was it just like so hardcore Protestant?
Kade Price: Yeah, there's the Protestant Church and the Assembly of God Church there, and the culture is—the culture is—it's a very social— um, it's, it felt like a social, very social religion, right?
Kade Price: They were going because they had the breakfasts and the meetings and the, you know, the events that, that kept them going, which is a good, good thing.
Darin Tingey: Yeah,
Kade Price: Like I'm not bagging off by any means, but when you're in that, it's like, why change?
Darin Tingey: no, totally.
Kade Price: You know what? That, that, that's literally how they probably look at It's like, why would I change? So it was good to teach everybody and at least share messages with them and basically show them how many similarities that, that, you know, members of the church have with their beliefs. Um, but they were very rooted and it it was hard.
Kade Price: So the only people that really wanted to listen to us were kind of like outcasted people, like people that weren't appreciated by those churches, people that probably didn't go to those churches, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah,
Kade Price: And so, We didn't recognize that at the time. I recognize that now like looking at it. But at the time, you don't really recognize that these were people that were almost not welcome, I would say.
Kade Price: I mean, i don't know. They were – it felt like outcasted people, you know?
Darin Tingey: yeah no, totally. i And that's it so interesting to hear, because I like the societal, you know everyone goes to this church for whatever breakfast they're having, because I saw the same, I'm sorry, I'm gonna continue to compare it to lie, because that's just the most similar experience.
Kade Price: Yeah, no, it's right there, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it's just so funny because had the same thing, right? But there's three churches, LDS, Protestant, and a Protestant break off. And even though they all had kind of their separate activities, the the island activities would still happen with everybody.
Kade Price: Okay.
Darin Tingey: And so it didn't feel like as big of a deal, I guess. And that's, it probably did at the very beginning when the church was first there.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But I mean, this island, they're all one big family.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like they're probably all related, every single one of them.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: um So just, it is kind of that like, ah, I'm going against my family. If I join this church, you guys don't have breakfast.
Kade Price: That's a lot of questions.
Darin Tingey: You guys don't even have rice and flour for me.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: Seriously. sleep it's No, seriously.
Darin Tingey: i need to eat. So I'm going there.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: but like, again, it's like wiz i it's like, you would think it would, since it's so close to Evi, it would be similar to live, but they're just so, yeah, like you said, deeply rooted.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: There's not very many people too. So i don't know. There was, it would be hard to, you know, convince, you know, don't don't know. i just It was just, it was everything was hard about it. The work, the life, like we were really hungry at one point, you know?
Kade Price: um so, and then people weren't, that they were okay to like talk to us, but they didn't want to hear so her message, you know, most of them. So, but it's,
Darin Tingey: So what was a typical day on the Wuzhai like for you?
Kade Price: Yeah, we had a handful of like investigators that we would go um teach with all the time, you know, and then we um we would spend so much time doing service like we um were like, hey, if we're if they're not going to listen to us, like, let's just help them, you know.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: And we did that. We, I got so good at husking coconuts and i don't know what's called, kataka you know, cut the meat out of the coconut.
Darin Tingey: Uh-huh. ahha
Kade Price: And, you know, we started doing so much service and I liked that part. That was fun, you know. But we also were super involved in um the school. There was a school there. We taught at the school.
Kade Price: we were involved in the other churches. um Like they were working on their, they were working on their church. So we would go over and, I guess it was part of their culture that we would be involved in their lunches and stuff for the workers of the church.
Kade Price: And so there there was a lot of things that we tried to do to keep busy, but most of it was service.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: Like we just helped everybody um with with anything and then just tried to talk to everybody. So, um, yes.
Darin Tingey: And I'm assuming you would try and so i don't know if people came or not, but you hold church at the house that you stay at?
Kade Price: Yeah, we had church at the house right there on the patio, and it was mostly a few kids that would come. like We had some adults come a few times, maybe. i don't know. i was there for six months, and that was a long time.
Darin Tingey: It's so long.
Kade Price: How many times did adults come probably five times or you know maybe 10 times because we started teaching this couple that lived at the end of the at the end of the island, Jomi and Jomice. And they um you know they took a lot of our lessons.
Kade Price: And I actually married them while I was out there, which is crazy.
Darin Tingey: Oh, cool.
Kade Price: Yeah. So I got to marry them so that they could get ready for baptism. And then ah literally right after I left, they got baptized. So they they' were on date and everything. and And so i spent six months spen six months working really hard on them and getting super close with them.
Darin Tingey: That's cool.
Kade Price: And I love them. like I still pray for them. you know i Those are good people. and And I hope they're doing good. Yeah. I know Jomie, the guy, he had his own demons. you know he he struggled with a lot of things, but um you could see his heart. like He was a really tough guy on the outside, but his heart was big.
Kade Price: you know so Yeah, good people, man. Love that.
Darin Tingey: So did they did did you feel like they were outcasted from the rest of Wida?
Kade Price: They kind of were, yeah. Jomeis, the girl, she would go to those church events and stuff and and be with the ladies and you know do what the ladies do, making stuff and making food and everything.
Darin Tingey: Sure.
Kade Price: But she never felt like that was a home for her. especially after we started teaching them, the other people on island were like, hey, you're with them now. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: it was kind of sad. Um, cause you could tell like they felt uncomfortable about it, but they also like, we had such good lessons with them and such good times to feel the spirit that they, they knew what they wanted to do You know, they knew what they should do.
Kade Price: And so, um, yeah, so it's hard social system, right? Like that's a, that's a real thing.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: So, um,
Darin Tingey: Yeah, and even, I mean, it's it's a real thing even in your neighborhood right now, my neighborhood, just a bad imagine that on a tiny little island where you can't go anywhere else.
Kade Price: Yeah, totally.
Kade Price: You know, these are the only people you know, you know.
Darin Tingey: it's
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Dang, man. So did you see, i can't i just like can't imagine like six months of church every Sunday and like no one's coming, man.
Kade Price: It was hard.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: i'd be i would It'd be so hard on you just mentally.
Kade Price: Yeah, i for some reason it didn't bother me too much. i can't remember i can't remember the feelings that I was feeling about like how our success was. right it probably it was I just remember it being hard, but remember thinking, like I love this place. like Even like I could live here.
Kade Price: You know what I mean? cause like i just I just fell into the culture, fell into with the people, and and that was good for me.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: like I was okay with that. you know
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: the the the the work was not progressing ah very much. But like I said, we I mean, they got baptized after I left and I don't know how that carried on, you know, but, um, but yeah, it's hard, hard work.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So yeah, it's okay if Buzhai is closed, it might not make sense like for the church, you know? Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I think, i just like think, man, it could be the next lie. at some point it's going to turn. I just know. I just feel it.
Kade Price: like It could. we we We felt that way too, man. We were passionate about it.
Darin Tingey: What it needs is the Jake family on Ebi that are from Wigai to move back to Wigai.
Kade Price: Okay. Yes, that's right. Yeah. Joel, Joel J.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, still Jake. Nice.
Kade Price: Yep. And um I want to say Elizabeth and Joseph were Jakes. Were they Jakes? Joseph? I can't remember. There were Jakes on the island, obviously. And And um that's how they made that connection somehow saying, Hey, you can get missionaries here if you, you know, through this family.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: So
Darin Tingey: Yeah. The Joel would always be like, why aren't there missionaries on Wujia right now? He'd always say that.
Kade Price: yeah.
Darin Tingey: And it's like, well, Joel, there's just no one there that wants the gospel.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Seriously. It's so, it was so hard.
Darin Tingey: But they, you know, maybe, i don't know if you know, Selena Joseph.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I think that's her last name, Joseph. She was from Wujia. You have a picture with her parents. I found a line on your Facebook. i'll have to show it to you or ill to point out to you.
Kade Price: What? Is that Joseph? joseph Maybe it's Joseph Joseph and Elizabeth Joseph.
Darin Tingey: She's like I wanna say manly lady. ah sit I can't remember, it's hard to describe them.
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah i'll have to I'll have to look and see what who I have photos with, but...
Darin Tingey: there's there's like There's a couple, and he kind of has, I think he has a little mustache, but their daughter went and lived with the Jakes on Ebi for school and ended up getting baptized.
Kade Price: I feel like don't know.
Darin Tingey: She served a mission in the States. She now, I think she lives in Utah and is married... I don't know, some guy here goes to church and stuff.
Kade Price: Oh, that's cool. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So it's like, so like, even though we i might not have the church there, there are people from which I, yeah, that are now members of service and stuff like that, which is really cool.
Kade Price: There's Bruce.
Kade Price: That's cool. Yeah, I want to see that. That's cool.
Darin Tingey: um But, and another thing I think about which I, and sorry, I'm talking so much about which I just, we haven't talked, we haven't talked about it
Kade Price: I love it. Yeah. thought it was my favorite part of the whole mission. So that's fine.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: yeah Yeah, man.
Darin Tingey: wait because because Just because I haven't like really talked to anyone who served there, right? So it's just so fun to hear about. But I remember always being like, people from Muijai are a lot darker than the rest Marshalls people. Did you notice that?
Kade Price: Jomi was the darkest guy on the whole island. He was a black dude, man. He was so dark, almost Vanuatuan looking or Fijian looking. He was, he didn't even look Marshallese because he was big too. And was really tall.
Kade Price: So yeah, they're dark. i they, they're known for, I think they're known for their, um, boats. They're, are they called Katagatats or something like that?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yep.
Kade Price: And but they're known for something like that. And maybe lias too, because they probably used to travel between islands on ah those two islands. And they're, you know, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, they're so dark there, and I'm like, um maybe it's just they're out in the sun more. I don't understand why they are darker than everybody else, but.
Kade Price: Yeah, they're really dark over there. Seriously. a lot of them are. And they'd fish a lot. So it made sense.
Darin Tingey: Did you ever see the Jobwa, is that what it is?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: The Jobwa dance?
Kade Price: and jib
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the stick dance.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you see that on Wizzette?
Kade Price: Is that from Wujai?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Okay, i remember I remember talking about that. um I only saw it on Majuro.
Darin Tingey: Huh.
Kade Price: They were doing a thing for Wujai, so they did the Jeboah dance, but they didn't do it there.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: um But yeah, I remember that Woodjai is known for something like that. And they're also known for the big story. There's a story about a giant ah giant squid.
Kade Price: i can't remember what it's called. But basically the octopuses, there's a ton of them near that island. And maybe there are to near all the islands, but that one for sure had a bunch because we ate them all the time.
Kade Price: And we caught them all the time. And you're not supposed to kill them at night. Like that was a big thing. they were update Because at night they turned into like princesses or something like that. you know like Some weird superstition. so
Darin Tingey: I love that they have that stuff like that.
Kade Price: they yeah they do. And they're serious. like Those kids were like, so touch don't touch this octopus! When we were fishing at night. They're like, you're going to die!
Kade Price: you know I was like, okay, chill. We're good.
Darin Tingey: Did you ever go to the other, ah i had those other islands within the atoll?
Kade Price: So...
Kade Price: Dude, I'm glad you asked, bro. So we, we had a, I made a fake birthday while I was there. Cause I want to have a, I want to have a birthday. Did you ever do that?
Darin Tingey: No, that's genius though.
Kade Price: I care.
Darin Tingey: Why did i think of that?
Kade Price: Yes. Somebody told me that. they're like, dude, I had my fake birthday. i'm like, oh my gosh, a fake birthday. So you have a birthday on every in every transfer or every area.
Darin Tingey: It's so good.
Kade Price: So I had a fake birthday and me and Siale, oh dude, get this. It was his real birthday. ah So I had already set the birth date and then he came and replaced Tui Tupou and it my fake birthday was his real birthday. It was crazy.
Kade Price: And then so we had this big party. We threw this huge party. And we they had they had we had the guys take us out there on a boat to one of those tiny islands.
Kade Price: And I don't think – I mean it definitely probably is not ah allowed. But we stayed the night on on that island.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And while we were there, they had like a little house there. We just, we literally just hung out with the guys and then slept. And while we slept, they went out into the, into the trees and climbed the trees at night and took birds down. Those huge birds. I don't, have you seen those giant birds?
Darin Tingey: haven't seen giant ones, but I've...
Kade Price: They're, they're called like frigate birds.
Darin Tingey: Oh, uh-huh.
Kade Price: F-R-I-G-A-T-E. a e theyre If you look those up, I mean, they're freaking three feet tall, giant, like crazy birds.
Kade Price: And they would get them at night the same way you do with the fish. You just shine your flashlight on them while they're in the tree. And then a guy would slingshot them and take them down. And so, what yeah, it was crazy.
Darin Tingey: and
Kade Price: and so we're like, you know, trying to sleep or whatever. And they come back with these bags full of these huge birds because they're throwing this huge party.
Kade Price: And like we paid for the gas. and we you know We used our money to just like buy a pig. and
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: was That was like one of the coolest moments of the whole mission. On the way back that next morning, we were on the boat, and all of a sudden the guy starts yelling. like, one clue, and he's saying, there's a huge sea turtle.
Kade Price: He starts yelling at the other boat. And ah so like four of these guys jump out of the boat and start like swimming towards this huge sea turtle. And i jumped out the boat too. It was probably like knee-high water.
Kade Price: was just running as fast as I could. And then one of the guys just jumps on the sea turtle and and basically catches it. And they drag it into that boat. And we had this huge sea turtle. So that was like icing on the cake. like ah they had They caught a bunch of fish. We had all those birds, the sea turtle.
Kade Price: It was like a crazy party that we threw. And it was super fun.
Darin Tingey: So cool.
Kade Price: So about that was my fake birthday on Wajai.
Darin Tingey: I so wish I would a fake birthday. That sounds so sick.
Kade Price: I highly recommend it, man.
Darin Tingey: we I did something similar on Lai.
Kade Price: Yeah. Nice. Let's
Darin Tingey: I mean, yours was a pretty freaking cool. Mine, same thing. We did like an elders quorum event and and the young men. And we did like, we fished all day.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: And then we went stayed on one of the ayatolls.
Kade Price: nice
Darin Tingey: And we slept on the beach there, you know under the stars.
Kade Price: ah go
Darin Tingey: And we did like a fireside. It was so funny because everyone dressed up in their shirt. They all brought their shirts and ties for the fireside.
Kade Price: Oh, dude, that's cool. That's so cool, man.
Darin Tingey: and And so we all dressed up, had a fireside. And then, you know, after been fishing all day, we went and went crab hunting that night.
Kade Price: Oh, yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: So we did the, yeah, dude.
Kade Price: You find coconut crabs? Nice.
Darin Tingey: It was so cool. These things are huge and scary, man.
Kade Price: And they're delicious, too.
Darin Tingey: so good basic basically lobster uh of the marshlands yeah it was so good but i just remember it was so fun i loved crab hunting and same thing we'd spend our gas like we spent our money on gas to go whatever all these different little islands which is so fun
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah. Land lobsters. Yeah.
Kade Price: yeah
Kade Price: yeah yeah that's awesome at least you were with members dude i was just with like random dudes that's awesome though
Darin Tingey: But I mean, your boat ride out there probably been long, couple like was it an hour or two?
Kade Price: it yeah it felt like an hour there on the speedboat yeah it was probably an hour there and then an hour back and i'm telling you that sea turtle was so big man and ah you you You probably had a bunch of sea turtle and lye too, right?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah, we did. So good.
Kade Price: Yeah. Super good. And that thing fed the entire island. So everybody was stoked on it, you know? um And including us. Like, I have pictures of it in the boat with us and stuff. Like, it's cool, you know?
Kade Price: But we were, like towards the very end, President came out to which like, I was about to, I think I was about to leave because Yeah, it it was a it was a couple weeks or a few weeks before I was about to leave and present was coming out.
Kade Price: So we were like told everybody on the island, like, hey, our present's coming out. If you would help us put together like a little, you know, invitation to, you know, have lunch or whatever with them.
Darin Tingey: Mm-hmm.
Kade Price: So they took us out on the boat and we caught tuna. We did, you know, the long fishing line. I don't know what they call it, but the trolley and, um,
Kade Price: and caught a bunch of big tuna and that was really fun too and when we were coming out when were outside we were like right on the outside basically right before you jump across the the waves to the lick side we see a boat coming and we're like oh that's present he's here like we didn't ask him if he could be on the boat or anything and i'm pretty sure you're not supposed to be But ah he came around the corner there on his on that boat, and we just, like, awkwardly waved at him. It was so funny. We're like, hey. And he just kind of, he didn't have any, like, he didn't show any emotion. he was just, like, we were really nervous about what he was going to say about us being on the boat because we definitely didn't ask, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And um it was President Weir. He like literally was so cool. Like, he got to the island, and he's like, He's like, you guys know, like, there's a lot of mission presents that would just send you home for that. right Yeah, probably. i mean, we're just out in the middle of the ocean on a boat. You know what i mean?
Kade Price: So that was super fun.
Darin Tingey: That's awesome.
Kade Price: we had him We had him there and had a bunch of sushi or sashimi.
Darin Tingey: Sashimi, yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, super.
Darin Tingey: So he came and just like wanted to see, would He was smart to come by boat so that he wouldn't get stranded there.
Kade Price: He wanted to see it, and I don't remember why, because our numbers were probably crap. And whatever, we showed him what we had and what we did and everything. and you could tell he's like, okay, I'm ready to go.
Kade Price: but like i want to go to Lai or something. you know like let Let me get to somewhere where there's people.
Kade Price: Yeah, seriously. So that was an issue. our are The planes were always delayed there. There was never a boat. So we we ate a lot of buiro there, dude, because that's all that...
Kade Price: That would last
Darin Tingey: Yeah, preserved breadfruit can last for years in the ground, which is crazy.
Kade Price: forever. I started to like it. That's the weird part.
Darin Tingey: Me too. I loved it.
Kade Price: You did? Okay.
Darin Tingey: i loved it. eat it with the whiny.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: and was so good.
Kade Price: Oh, yeah. Yeah, we had like, somebody had this some sort of butter that we would dip it in. And that helped for sure. So we ate it like crispy. We got it like crispy, like almost like a brownie.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: I can't remember how they'd cut it or cook it, but we'd get it crispy and then just dip it in that butter and just, I ended up liking it, man. and
Darin Tingey: yeah Yeah.
Kade Price: Nobody should like it. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It does smell like poop, but it's good.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I mean, when you're out there, there's not much to eat and it fills you up.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: so
Kade Price: yeah yeah
Darin Tingey: ah So you were probably pretty sad to leave Widget Eye when you did.
Kade Price: Yeah, I was really sad, but like, it was time. Six months is plenty. You know what I mean? Like, so i hopped on the plane there, was replaced by a Vanuatu, an elder.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: um i can't remember his name, but I remember again on that plane and then we stopped at Kwajalein. I was headed straight to Majuro, but I hopped on the plane and we landed Kwaj and
Kade Price: the pilot brought me a burger from, uh, what was it?
Darin Tingey: The Burger King.
Kade Price: The band's Burger King.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: new Burger King. i was like going crazy. Cause I was in a cold drink too. That was crazy. Right. Cause the whole time you not, there's nothing cold.
Darin Tingey: Such weird feeling.
Kade Price: Right.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: So to be given a cold drink and ah burger is like an explosion in your mouth. Like that's the best burger thing could it ever taste. You know what i mean?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the the feeling of cold water going down your throat after you haven't had it for months is the weirdest thing ever.
Kade Price: It's weird, huh?
Darin Tingey: So weird.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah. Super weird.
Darin Tingey: So you went back to Maduro. It was time. your shirts were all brown by this time.
Kade Price: Yeah. Dude. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: um And you get transferred to – can't remember. I can't am forget.
Kade Price: i was in I went to Ulaga to be a zone leader with Elder Folger from Idaho.
Darin Tingey: Okay. So, u look yeah very, very different.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: you're You're kind of back in the city vibe of Madrigal.
Kade Price: Yeah. Totally. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you go to the Ackley's a lot?
Kade Price: Yeah. yeah So my dad knew, um my dad knew, i think my dad knew brother Ackley. We went there a lot and hung out.
Kade Price: Um, I can't remember how they knew each other. They they were in this in the mission, but they were never companions or anything. But I think there's, i think I have a photo of them. um Which is kind of funny.
Darin Tingey: Oh, cool.
Kade Price: So yeah, we spent a lot of time there. spent you know We played basketball a lot and play you know hung out with the kids. Obviously, the youth, they're super you know strong.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: There's a lot of strong youth there, a lot of fun youth. We had good investigators. It's kind of like a a bridge part of my mission where like i didn't I don't remember much of it.
Kade Price: Because after that, it became AP with Maisie.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: if you haven't had Maisie on, you didn't get Maisie on.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, he's he's one that's on my list. I haven't reached out to him yet, but i I've been like, you know, i I follow him on Instagram and stuff.
Kade Price: is Okay. Yeah. Okay.
Darin Tingey: And so I see his stuff. We'll eventually get him on.
Kade Price: Yeah, I love Mazzy Man. So we were he was the Kitabas AP. I was the met and the Marshalls AP at that point. And I was, um how many months in was this?
Kade Price: was like, I'm telling you, dude. I was AP for so long, dude. I died pretty much as AP. it was so long.
Darin Tingey: You lived like your, what a normal missionary does in two years and like the year a year and a few months and then ap the rest.
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah. I did six months in Wuzhai, which was so long. And then was zone leader for, I don't know, a transfer or two. And then AP the rest. And was fun. So what once I started, i i was AP with Maisie.
Kade Price: Maybe it was with Tui Tupo too. This is where I started to have a bunch of companions, like Tui Tupo, Maisie. um and then we had... Maisie was stoked because we were office elders and marshals, ah but then we got to go down to Kitabas pretty quickly. And I think Maisie was like begging President, like, get me out of here. you know Because it sucks when you don't speak the language and they're not your people. and like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And it's true, like what the Marshall Islands work is different than the Kitabas work, like for sure. Right?
Darin Tingey: Absolutely.
Kade Price: So we we ended up going down to Kitabas and we stayed in Teoreke. right by the There's like a Toyota dealership right there. i don't Do you know that house or no?
Kade Price: No.
Darin Tingey: no i I didn't spend much time on taroas, so my taroas, like, geography is pretty poor, but...
Kade Price: Okay.
Kade Price: or Okay. So we stayed in Teoreke, which is kind of nearby Riki. And... um And we just taught like crazy, bro.
Kade Price: Maisie loves to teach and he would go hard and he wanted to have the record for most lessons ever. You know, like he was, he was, we taught a lot and I didn't speak any of the language.
Kade Price: So i was just like, i was just hanging on for the ride, you know?
Darin Tingey: Right.
Kade Price: and I was kind of at that weird teetering point where it's like, should I try to learn the language or should I like, or should I just float through this? You know? Cause who knows? I could just go back to Marshall's and any second, you know?
Kade Price: Um, so after, after Maisie left, man, who was my direct companion after that? I get kind of blurry. I had, had like a bunch of halfway companions, like, um, Madison was my companion.
Kade Price: He's local here. I don't know if you know, Garen Madison, but he's, he's from here, Gilbert as well.
Darin Tingey: All right.
Kade Price: And, um, And then I had Open Shaw as my ah companion when he came back from Christmas when his family passed away. So that was like a rough you know moment and rough time where we we were in a threesome.
Kade Price: um And then Fawcett was my my companion. um so i So we started like having a bunch of companions. And we were also bringing elders in from all the outer islands of of kid abyss and then they would spend time with us so we always had like threesomes it was almost always a threesome you know we're trying to get elders all over the place you know yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, elders are constantly coming and stay with you for a week and then head out. so So were you guys, when you say you went to Kitabas, you actually went and stayed there in Kitabas for a while?
Kade Price: yeah yeah we were there for a long time oh i was there for like six months
Darin Tingey: Like how long? Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Oh, really? So previously it was like APs would stay in Maduro and then go make trips down to Tarawa.
Kade Price: Yeah, was there for a long time.
Kade Price: Yeah, that's how it was previously.
Darin Tingey: But you...
Kade Price: But I i swear Maisie either asked or was like, I can't remember.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Yeah.
Kade Price: he he might have been like, Prez, we can teach in this area down there. like Get me in there. Because we weren't teaching... in marshals like we didn't have an area right we kind of just like jumbled in in long island and then helped out other missionaries and everything but um we went when we went down to kiss kitabuz we were teaching like we were we had an area you know and baptized a bunch too was it was way different than what i was used to
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I know. It's so it's so different. like The work is just so much better in Kitabas. ah
Kade Price: yeah it's it's good
Darin Tingey: I better is a, is a relative word, I guess.
Kade Price: Yeah, take it how you want it.
Darin Tingey: I mean, better.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Better in the sense that they're baptizing more people um and, and other things. Right.
Kade Price: no Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But they also just have more people in Kiribati than they do it in the Marshalls.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So if you were there for like, you know, six months, like were you still traveling back to Marshalls ever, or were you kind of just full on?
Kade Price: We went back, I think, once or twice. I think we went and visited once twice for a short period, like a week or whatever.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: and Or maybe two weeks, maybe. And then, you know, while we were there, you know, i I can't remember what we did, but then we went straight back to Kitabas. And um a lot of that had to do with, I think, Open Shaw coming back to be...
Kade Price: in in the mission home um to be able to have good contact with his family and everything because that was a whole situation, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: and it was It was really hard. But, you know, he did great through it. I mean, I don't know if you knew the whole story or anything, but...
Darin Tingey: plane crash right
Kade Price: um Yeah, his parents, I think it was his parents and maybe two siblings passed in a plane crash.
Darin Tingey: that's sibling uh
Kade Price: and so that was like and and he stayed And he stayed out and finished out his mission. or I think he finished it out. i left before, but I'm pretty sure he did. And so anyways, he, he had to be home at the mission home to have good communication with everybody and stuff. So we were, that's when we did move into that like mission home where do you remember the, I guess you probably don't remember the walls, but we called it the walls house.
Kade Price: I think there was the walls. It was where a senior couple, yeah, it was at Moroni where, you know, the, one of those back houses, right?
Darin Tingey: Was that Moroni?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah, I know that is.
Kade Price: I think there were, I think there were two of them. Like the nurse was in one. the um you know elder missionaries the older couple was in there and um so we started staying in there because open shot needed to have direct communication to uh to home and everything so and that was cool it was fun because we got to be in eighth right isn't that eighth uh yeah so we got to be in eighth uh we
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah, it is
Darin Tingey: fun to be on Marona High School. Just, it's good vibes.
Kade Price: Yeah, super fun. Yeah, it was awesome. and we and And I had all these cool – so, like, I wasn't used to any of Kitabits, but I had all these companions that were like, hey, we're going over here. I'm like, yeah, we are because we got a car, you know? like So I was, like, taking them wherever they wanted to go to, like, go visit their families that they had taught and in Eita and Teorereke and Bayeriki and Beso.
Kade Price: but kind of you we were jumbling all over the place to visit all these cool families so that was a super fun part of the mission because like i was just on hanging on for the ride for all these missionaries that wanted to be with their families you know what i mean
Darin Tingey: How's your Kitabas? Did you learn Kitabas?
Kade Price: my kid is gone now like way gone but while i was there i got really good and the and learning i mean you you went fluent in both right
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I mean, i felt fluent. na ah Similar to you in the sense of I got really i felt like I got really good at it. And then now, like my Kitabas struggles.
Darin Tingey: like it doesn't It doesn't stick as much as Marshall is.
Kade Price: Yeah. It's marshy. Same. Okay, cool. Same with me, for sure.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: um And how long did you spend in Kitabas?
Darin Tingey: only four and a half months.
Kade Price: Oh, wow. That's not long at all.
Darin Tingey: I was Mayana the entire time.
Kade Price: Really?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, so like I flew into Kiribati, Tatarawa on Sunday, flew to Mayana on Tuesday.
Kade Price: What the heck?
Darin Tingey: and then when I came back, I flew back on Tuesday Tatarawa and back to the Marshalls on Friday. So it was so fast.
Kade Price: What the heck? You barely even spent any time in Tarawa.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, like I combined five days. So,
Kade Price: Okay, so and after Mayana, you went back to Marshalls to do what? To die?
Kade Price: So what was that?
Darin Tingey: yeah I know. it was yes I'm to do a podcast of my my experience.
Kade Price: Yeah, we gotta get we got to get into yours, yeah.
Darin Tingey: i'll talk I'll talk about it. but But the the long story short is we were losing 20-ish missionaries in the summer, um and that summer in Kiribati.
Darin Tingey: And the president really wanted to keep the work going.
Kade Price: Oh.
Darin Tingey: So he sent six of us from the marshals over to Kiribati.
Kade Price: That's cool. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so he sent us all to Outer Islands. And um i I got sent to Miami and I was there for four and a half months and he pulls me off. And I had a ah kid from my state come into the mission. i was like, hey, i'd love to train him. Like it'd be super cool.
Darin Tingey: And he's like, I got a different kid of his side.
Kade Price: On the Kiddabr side or Marshall side? Okay.
Darin Tingey: And because he had like emailed me before. He's like, hey do dude, I'm coming to your mission. I'm going to Kitabas.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I'm like, bro, I'm never going to see you. Like I'm on the Marshall side.
Kade Price: Yeah. Seriously.
Darin Tingey: And then I get transferred to Kitabas. Like, bro, going to see you. And I'm like telling him everything. Like, because I hit it perfectly. I got there in April. So I had like the the village that I was in. I had like Katay and the Minyebe, like the...
Darin Tingey: um kind of anniversary of the village. I hit the Surai. I hit like, I hit just like everything perfectly to see all the stuff in Kiribati.
Kade Price: Yeah. Sick.
Darin Tingey: um
Kade Price: say
Darin Tingey: And then anyway, President's like, I've got another assignment for you. I'm like, cool. Like maybe like I can spend some time on Tarawa or another island or something.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's like, I'm sending you back to the marshals. I'm like, what?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I've sent you back to the marshals. Like, dude, you just sent me here. Like, I just like, I'm feeling good about everything, like language and all that stuff. Like I feel great. And he's like, he's like, I'm sending you back and I'm going to have you do a kid of this branch in the marsh islands.
Kade Price: tough.
Kade Price: Oh.
Darin Tingey: So, so I started a kid of this branch in long Island and I did that for another four and a half months before I went to lie.
Kade Price: That's cool.
Darin Tingey: So like, I still had like
Kade Price: Oh, that was before Lai.
Darin Tingey: ah That's before life. So I actually did a Kittabit's Outer Island before I did a Marshall's Outer Island.
Kade Price: Dang, that's crazy. What a weird timeline, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. is Yeah, it was super weird. But, I mean, i kind of... i Part of the reason i went back to the Marshall Islands so quickly is because...
Darin Tingey: There were some things that went down on the Marshall Island side that some missionaries got sent home. So they just needed numbers really was part of it, which kind of sucks because I really was like, man, maybe I can get like, I was only six months into the Marshalls and then I transferred Kitabas.
Kade Price: yeah, yeah i got you. That's a struggle.
Darin Tingey: So was like, man, I could probably get like a year in Kitabas and then go back and spend another six months in Marshalls and kind of spent my time perfectly. But, you know, God had other plans. So yeah.
Kade Price: dude yeah that's a wild timeline like very unconventional I remember Winston talking about Chaz Salanoa coming from Marshalls and going straight to Beru think Beru right yeah that's why that was that was the first time we'd ever seen anything like that
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: And we're like, what? And he was the right guy. Like, he was, like, really cool and fun, and he was going to adapt just fine. so But that's ah that's a hard thing to do, man.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I know. It was kind of, it was wild. It was a,
Kade Price: So on Mayanna, did you have a good trainer like ah or a good coach?
Darin Tingey: it was weird, right?
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like a trainer. Yeah, I know, right? it was a trainer.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: that was That was something that i struggled with because he was like, oh, you're like my son. I'm like, bro, like I'm like six months in mission.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like I'm not, you're not training me, which I i needed to be more humble.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Sorry, dude.
Kade Price: Well, went through this.
Darin Tingey: sorry du
Kade Price: I went through the same thing because I was with maybe and in, in a kid of this, not knowing the language at all.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And so i look I literally look like a brand new missionary. Like, I don't know how to talk to you. So I can't talk to you. Right.
Darin Tingey: It's so frustrating.
Kade Price: It's so frustrating. Cause you're like, i speak Marshallese.
Darin Tingey: it
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: yeah and then you And then you add it, ask your companion, like, Hey, can you teach me how to like do this lesson? You know, you're like, i know how to teach.
Kade Price: Totally, yeah.
Darin Tingey: I'm a missionary. I know how to do it but I just can't do it in this language.
Kade Price: Yeah. I need help with the language.
Darin Tingey: um So yeah, luckily I did. he was he was great the first two months and then he left. And then I got a kid that was in MTC with me, but he was super shy.
Darin Tingey: So he didn't really speak a lot, which was really good for me because then I had to do all the speaking.
Kade Price: You had to do it, yeah.
Darin Tingey: But I'm only two months into Kitabas and im I'm then having to lead church in four different villages and do you know do everything.
Kade Price: That's crazy, man.
Kade Price: you
Darin Tingey: So it like it definitely like accelerated ah learning Kitabas. And I think, I mean, maybe you feel the same way, but having learned a language previously, it it just ah helps you learn ah the third language.
Kade Price: Way helped. Yeah. Yeah, once Maisie left, because we were teaching a lot, but I wasn't doing much. Once he left and I had to talk, it just clicked like way fast.
Kade Price: And then, like yeah, it's the same thing. yeah you look You pick it up way fast.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: you just I would always turn to, it because i Madison was my was my comp for a while, so I'd be in the middle of a lesson with him talking, and then I would just turn to him be like, hey, how do you say this?
Kade Price: And he'd just tell me right off the bat. like He was super witty and quick and smart, but he would let me like learn as i go. you know So i it was really fun, man.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: that's so That's cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I mean, thankfully, like kiddos people are so awesome and you do get so many reps teaching so many people that it makes it a lot easier.
Kade Price: yeah
Kade Price: Okay, now let me ask you this. Is Kitabas, I know learned Kitabas after Marshallese, but is it an easier language to learn than Marshallese?
Darin Tingey: Oh, 100%.
Kade Price: For sure, right?
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: Like ways easier.
Darin Tingey: It 100% is.
Kade Price: Okay.
Darin Tingey: The sounds that you make with your mouth are easier.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: Way easier, yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's easier on your ears too because Marshallese so back of your throat kind of mumbling.
Kade Price: Yeah. Mumbled, yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: There's a lot more letter variations in Marshallese than there is in Kiribati.
Kade Price: Yeah, kid-a-bis just flows with the tip of your tongue, right? Like, it's really easy to...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And the the pronunciations in Marshallese matter way more than in kid-a-bis. So, like, if you get a word wrong in kid-a-bis, they'll still figure it out. If you get a word, like, slightly wrong in Marshallese, they have no idea what you said.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: you know what mean? They're like, huh? You're like, um my gosh, what am I saying? Like... this is the word, right? You know, and you have to say it perfectly.
Darin Tingey: from
Kade Price: they The, the, the enunciation is so like precise, you know what I mean?
Darin Tingey: Absolutely.
Kade Price: So yeah, I'm glad we agree on that.
Darin Tingey: yeah little little sense of Marshall's pride there.
Kade Price: Yeah, exactly.
Darin Tingey: um So i I've seen that pictures. You also got to visit outer islands in Kiribati. Is that right?
Kade Price: Yeah, yeah, I did. I got to fly a lot. So President Weir loved, he was ah he sold helicopters for a living. So he loved a aviation to begin with. So he would always put us on this nice plane that he loved.
Kade Price: And um the charter costs were insane. I couldn't even believe it when I saw the receipts. i'm like, holy crap. But he would put us on planes all over the place. So we went to Where do we fly?
Kade Price: Well, I flew to Nikunao and visited Farley. That was cool.
Darin Tingey: Okay, that's cool.
Kade Price: And I think that was a trip where we either, I think we pulled him off that trip and went straight to Beru, think.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's where he went to next, yeah.
Kade Price: Something like that. So we visited Nikunao, Beru. I went to Tabatauea. um I went to, where else said it fly? i can't remember all the islands we flew to. We flew to a lot of islands and then we boated to North Ottawa and What's the other one?
Kade Price: it Abayang?
Darin Tingey: Abayam, yeah.
Kade Price: It's right there. Yeah. Abayang. We took the boat to those. ah But we flew to a lot of islands and just visited. or i didn't stay very long. I don't think I slept on another outer island even.
Kade Price: So it was always day trips.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: But we did go to a lot of them. It was fun. It was cool.
Darin Tingey: So cool. I mean, you got, you already had to, got to serve on two in the marshals and then see a bunch like contrast those for me, the compare contrast the outer islands of marshals to kid of this.
Kade Price: Yeah. Yeah.
Kade Price: I think the biggest thing is like physically they're different. right they The marshals are green, like way more green. and So the Kitabas felt like desert islands. right
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: um That was the main difference, I think. And that's all I could really tell. because they had similar Kitabas was a lot more so you know sticks and stones. right like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: All the booyahs and everything was man-made. made with where you you're made with with resources they had on the island. in kid In Marshalls, there was a lot of brick and like real roof, you know, like tin roof and whatever.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: So that was a big difference. But other than that, I think they're very similar, like physically, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, ah probably more populated, a lot more populated on the Kitabas side than the marshals.
Kade Price: Yeah, I guess so. Yeah, I think there's more people there, right? Okay.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it's a lot more. um And then tell me this, i the something I noticed was that the lagoons on the Kitabas side were just lot more shallower, like a lot more shallow than the marshals.
Kade Price: Oh, yeah, that would make sense. Like Sandy, right?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, they were way more sandy and like you can walk out forever when it was low tide.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, I think they were more Sandy. I remember thinking that. And, yeah, that's...
Darin Tingey: which is funny. i don't I don't know why, maybe just the the age of the ad tools or something, but
Kade Price: Yeah. I just pulled out my planners earlier because I was like, man, I got to prep for this. And I looked at one of my last planners and said I'd taken 14 flights.
Kade Price: so Or maybe 13 flights in 14 islands or something like that.
Darin Tingey: crazy.
Kade Price: That's like a lot of islands. I can't i don't even think I can name them all.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. And, and you'll never, you'll probably never do that ever again to see all those islands.
Kade Price: and I know.
Darin Tingey: This is once in a lifetime.
Kade Price: yeah that was one and done. You don't even realize it. Oh,
Darin Tingey: ah What would you say was the coolest island that you ever visited?
Kade Price: ah oh man.
Kade Price: Peru was cool. It was weird. Nikunao was really cool too. um But I didn't get to see enough of them to like actually appreciate what there was there.
Kade Price: And so Ibai is super unique. Like Ibai is a weird place.
Darin Tingey: and
Kade Price: Super unique. Nowhere else in the world has got to be like that, you know? Um, but like, which I takes the cake as far as like an Island that I love, you know, it's, it's, it's outcasted and I got to spend enough time there to like, see every single piece of it.
Kade Price: You know, i walked, I walked through that whole forest, you know, and we chased ducks and stuff like, you you know, we, we did all sorts of weird stuff on that Island.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Kade Price: So that's, that's my favorite one.
Darin Tingey: I'd say ah when I hear, when you people hear our mission, oftentimes like, oh, you're going be fishing for your food the entire time. And I'm like, I like think about that and I'm like, okay, it depended on what island you were on and the timing of when you were on the island.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But I will say there's one island that I would agree with that statement. when I think it's Wujay. As far as like fishing for your food, it's so far out there.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: They just don't get a lot of cargo, you know?
Kade Price: His booties. He's the booties, man. Yeah. I heard Lai is really pretty. i i think I stopped there on the plane on the plane on the way out.
Kade Price: um And it was pretty when I looked at it. you know It reminded me Island Glavalap, though. the layout and the way the, yeah, it reminded me a lot like Island Glabalop.
Darin Tingey: It lies so gorgeous.
Kade Price: so
Darin Tingey: And the lagoon is just...
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I mean, it's called live for a reason.
Kade Price: oh
Darin Tingey: mean, it's like calm water.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you ever visit any other Audis in the Marshalls as an AP?
Kade Price: but
Kade Price: Let's see. Just, I just landed in Lai Island Glabalop. I don't think I visited anywhere else. Ebi. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's a bummer where it didn't let you go to Wichita.
Kade Price: I know. I wanted to go to there. That would have been cool. Or Jalowitz. think Arno was open and Millie was open too.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: There was Elders on Millie, which was way down south, right? Or let's see, Abel on the south or the furthest south.
Darin Tingey: A bonfire for the south. Yeah.
Kade Price: But then Millie's way down there too. I remember flying over it on the way to Kitabas and seeing it. And yeah, i think Weir was opening all those islands, man. He was trying to get people everywhere.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: And that was cool. That was fun. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I love that he did that. I want every new part of the reason I do this podcast, hopefully the mission president listens to him and opens all of and That's right.
Kade Price: Open them up, man. If you want your missionaries to be tough and how have hard experiences, those outer islands, just do it, man.
Darin Tingey: And, and learn the language, you know, and just culture.
Kade Price: Learn the culture. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Totally. I mean, i remember, and you're probably the same one, we guys like, I write, writing letters to my family, you know, begging, begging the pilot when they came, you know, maybe twice a month, please take my letter, you know, please take it.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah. yeah Seriously.
Darin Tingey: Some of them made it back. Some of them didn't just, it's just a cool way to live.
Kade Price: Totally. Yeah, we sure.
Darin Tingey: So um I, my last three questions, which I, you basically already answered the first, you know, first one, which was favorite area, but yeah,
Kade Price: Yeah. Okay.
Darin Tingey: So favorite is usually favorite area, favorite food and favorite thing about the mission or it's about the marsh islands. And for you, maybe you can answer for, for both marsh islands and kiddo.
Darin Tingey: It's your favorite thing you ate on either one of those.
Kade Price: okay yeah food is there's a lot of good food man um we did sea turtle we did shark um i didn't eat a lot of fried shark i like that um we did island lab lab swain talked about that whale that washed up on the shore that was not good but it was interesting
Darin Tingey: Oh, yeah.
Darin Tingey: I'm
Kade Price: It was super interesting. was kind of irony tasting. like That might have not been good to eat, dude. because Who knows how long it was dead. um
Darin Tingey: surprised you guys were to have Piroto after that for a while.
Kade Price: Yeah, dude, we were probably sick after that. um There's this meal that they cooked out of breadfruit and like white sugar cream, like kind of a cake on Wijai, and they called it Echelak Am Tokajay.
Kade Price: And i don't know why I don't know why, but they called it Ejelakam Tokuje. And it was so good. It tasted like cake with frosting. And like I hadn't had anything like that. they're like And so I had this lady make it for me a few times because she made it really good.
Kade Price: And she's like, I don't like It's too sweet. I'm like, yeah, no, it needs more sweet because they don't like sugar over there. you know It's like everything's salty. So Ejelakam Tokuje was one of my favorite cakes ever.
Darin Tingey: Interesting.
Kade Price: But um we had we had pig blood. Did you ever try pig blood?
Darin Tingey: i don't, I never did. I, when I left lie, they killed a pig for the party and I remember them stabbing in the heart and catching the blood, but I didn't try it.
Kade Price: Yeah. They boiled that blood and like I thought it going disgusting. was so good. You'd put it on rice. That was really good. um Dude, there's a lot of good food over there. and Oh, some of the buiro we talked about.
Kade Price: but
Darin Tingey: Sounds like you didn't dislike anything, which is how I was. I liked everything that ate besides clam. I didn't like that.
Kade Price: We ate a lot of those little snails, a little clam. ah ah Maybe not clam, but we had clam as well. and Yeah, I liked everything. and i I'm the wrong guy to ask because I liked all of it. Oh, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. What about Kiribus? Did you eat like anything specific, any Kiribus specific meals that you liked?
Kade Price: oh Yeah.
Kade Price: Yeah, the um they had those worms that they would pull out of sand, sandworms or whatever.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Kade Price: They'd wrap around a stick.
Darin Tingey: Uh-huh.
Kade Price: That was the first time I'd seen that because i didn I didn't see that in Marshalls. Those weren't that good, but it was cool, you know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah. I remember I ate it and someone's like, your face might feel a little weird after. And I'm like, what?
Kade Price: What?
Darin Tingey: I was like, what? like
Kade Price: It's just drugs, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Sometimes people have a reaction. i was like, what? Yeah.
Kade Price: Dude, you got to have Madison on.
Darin Tingey: but
Kade Price: He ate a puffer fish. and And was it Madison? Or Maisie? No, I think it was Madison, dude. He ate a puffer fish. His face fully puffed up like to where he couldn't see.
Kade Price: Oh, man. that would be He was on Peru, I think.
Darin Tingey: ah
Kade Price: Or somewhere way out there. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Oh gosh.
Kade Price: Yeah, that's that's good stuff. I don't remember a lot of the food from Kittabis other than they would make so much of it.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Kade Price: When you go to a party, there was bowls and bowls and bowls.
Darin Tingey: Bulls. Yeah.
Kade Price: Just like good food. and so I remember like just stuffing my face in Kittabis.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. It's a difference of Kitabas Marshalls.
Kade Price: so so
Darin Tingey: I feel like Marshalls, they hand you a plate with a mountain of rice and maybe a little meat.
Kade Price: Yeah, rice and whatever.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah, and then Kitabas is like, there's like five different bowls you can choose from. Like, oh, this is great. You know, little bit of this, little
Kade Price: You wonder where it comes from. like That's how much there is. You're like, how did they produce this? You know?
Darin Tingey: bit of that. Yeah.
Kade Price: And it was often, too. it was like, yeah.
Darin Tingey: i And it does make sense because they're living in these desert islands versus the marshals is like super green.
Kade Price: I know.
Darin Tingey: You think you can grow everything and have everything, but.
Kade Price: i just remember thinking, like are these people going poor feeding us? Because they would be huge meals. You know?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, they just wanted the best for the missionaries, which is awesome.
Kade Price: So cool.
Darin Tingey: a
Kade Price: Yeah, so cool. Those are good people, man.
Darin Tingey: What was your favorite thing about Marshall Islands and Kiribati?
Kade Price: Dang, that's tough, actually. i I think the culture was super fun to learn. um always loved that the people were so excited if you indulge in their culture.
Kade Price: So if you did something like like on Island Glabalop, I made bidnip. Do you know bidnip is? like the lotion Not lotion, but like oil, rubbing oil or for your skin.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Kade Price: They'll call it bidnip or something like that.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah.
Kade Price: um So i made that when I first got there. And they're like, what are you doing? They showed me how to make it and everything. And they were so confused at like why I cared about being in their culture. So I thought that was cool. like If you indulge in their culture, they are so respectful of everything.
Kade Price: You, you know, but learning the Roros like I learned when I was there, i'd learn a bunch of sayings, old, ancient, ancient language that nobody understands.
Darin Tingey: Absolutely.
Kade Price: But I would talk to old people and ask them about it And they always loved that. So like that was super fun. If you want to really apply yourself, if there's missionaries listening that are going to go out there, learn some Roros and talk to old people, and they'll be so impressed with you. and they'll you know they'll It's a great way to just
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the Roros are cool. The chants that you learn in the Marshall Islands.
Kade Price: yeah
Darin Tingey: It's so cool that they have that. it's kind of I've seen like a resurgence of it on like on Facebook and stuff. There's like this kid that is so good at the Roros and they have them.
Kade Price: Really?
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it's really cool, ah which I love because I didn't really learn the Roros until I went to Lai, which the end of my mission.
Kade Price: ah
Darin Tingey: i was like, I didn't even know it was a thing. you know
Kade Price: Yeah, for real. You don't really know. and I didn't know until which I, so...
Darin Tingey: Yeah. So cool.
Kade Price: Yeah, that's that's that's good stuff to do. Like, indulge indulge in the culture, and and there's so much more to you know to gain from that, so...
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Well, Cade, ah and suppose this was awesome. I loved hearing about Wujia. Again, there's very few missionaries that have ever served on that island.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And to serve six months there and then to serve in the Kitabas side as well, like super unique mission. um and I'm so happy we we made it happen.
Darin Tingey: We got the podcast, but it was awesome. Hopefully we can get and get to your dad on because it'd be so fun to hear his stories as well.
Kade Price: Yeah.
Kade Price: I'd like to hear that too.
Darin Tingey: um But this was another great episode of the Islands Podcast.
Kade Price: Thanks, dude.
