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Darin Tingey: All right, we are back with another episode of the Islands podcast. Super excited to have... Bridget Terry on the podcast who just returned home.
Brigitte Terry: Hmm.
Darin Tingey: from serving in the marshall islands in July, is that right?
Brigitte Terry: Yes. Thank you.
Brigitte Terry: so much me.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Bridget, give give a little background. Where are you from and what are you doing now?
Brigitte Terry: I'm from Newport Beach, California. Kind of that area.
Darin Tingey: Wow. What a rough place to be from.
Brigitte Terry: I know my life is really, really hard.
Darin Tingey: Gosh.
Brigitte Terry: whom
Darin Tingey: I totally forgot that's where you're from, which is how we got connected because my buddy Jared Davis is in your home ward, right?
Brigitte Terry: But yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah. Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Newport beach. Amazing.
Brigitte Terry: Yes, amazing place. Crazy transition Newport to. Marshall Adams. But yeah, right now I'm a sophomore at BYU Provo.
Brigitte Terry: studying psychology. So, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Wow, really cool.
Brigitte Terry: It's about to come down on me.
Darin Tingey: So did you do some schooling before your mission?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I actually did a year at BYU. Provo. before I went out, so I just did my full freshman year. And then I kind of took nine months off and I worked. I was a receptionist at a I know.
Brigitte Terry: Ophthalmologist?
Darin Tingey: and Okay.
Brigitte Terry: office, so.
Darin Tingey: Very cool. Nice.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And then... So... So, decided to go on a mission. Was that kind of always in the plan? Or was that later?
Brigitte Terry: I think it was one of those things where I kept... like thinking about it and then sometimes I would say I was gonna go and then I'd be like oh I don't know because my brother he served his mission in Columbus, Ohio.
Brigitte Terry: And... His mission always just kind of made me want to serve.
Darin Tingey: Columbus, nice.
Brigitte Terry: and then Yeah, I know. Pretty different. but
Darin Tingey: yeah
Brigitte Terry: I... I went to my freshman year at BYU and I kind of was like... oh well, I don't know, I'm kind of busy and I don't know if it's in the cards for me to.
Brigitte Terry: go and serve. And then I was listening to a devotional and the woman said, you know, I never served a mission. I wish I remember her name, but she said, I never served a mission. and i just i always regretted it and i was like oh that is so gonna be me if i don't go so i you know i i put in the work with the lord and just made sure it was the right thing and then obviously it was the right thing and I went off.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. And what was it like getting your mission call?
Brigitte Terry: Okay, so I didn't have a really big thing. for my mission call because I was visiting Utah when I got it.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: And, like, nobody I knew was there. And so I... opened it with just like my mom and like a few close family friends. My dad wasn't even there.
Brigitte Terry: He was in California. So he was over the phone.
Darin Tingey: Oh no.
Brigitte Terry: But I just remember. Like... Reading my call and reading. the Marshall Islands Kiribati mission.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: And I was like... What? in the world is that i for some reason thought it was somewhere by jamaica or something Could not have been more wrong.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Brigitte Terry: And, yeah, I just.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I remember being really excited. because I kind of knew I was going to go in the middle of nowhere. i thought i was gonna go to like africa or something but
Darin Tingey: Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: Nope. I went to the actual middle of nowhere
Darin Tingey: Yeah, middle of the Pacific.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Okay, you have to keep zooming in until you even see.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Specs. the islands. Uh...
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Did you... So you're called Marshallese speaking, obviously.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Did you? understand like the difference between the Marshall Islands and Kiribati?
Brigitte Terry: Okay, so when I first got my call I was like, oh my gosh, I'm going to two different places like that's so cool and then i don't know somehow my mom found out i think she was like She joined a Facebook.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: Facebook page or something.
Darin Tingey: Facebook page yeah Yep.
Brigitte Terry: We were like... You only go to one. And I was like, oh. Okay, so... I'm just the Marshall Islands.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So yeah. And then I was able to like, kind of. tell the difference between the two of them.
Darin Tingey: Fate. Yeah. I asked that because I had. friends that served in my mission and like So I served on the marshlands and Kittibus.
Darin Tingey: I got to serve them both. But I just remember. My buddy. uh it was on the kid of a side when we got our calls was the marshall's madro mission at the time. And they changed it while we were out there.
Darin Tingey: And so he took his pictures with the Marshall Islands flag and all this stuff, even though he's going to Kittibiss. And. No joke, his whole like time, his mom thought he was in the Marshall Islands. It's like. They're totally different countries. like he doesn't He is not in the margin islands.
Darin Tingey: I think she thought it like kid abyss was.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: like a region within the marsh islands and i was like no It's not.
Brigitte Terry: You know what? Fair enough. oh
Darin Tingey: So that's why I asked that. Did you do any... Research on the mission before going. to learn about the Marshall Islands or are you just kind of like, all right, here we go.
Brigitte Terry: Okay, so my mom actually knew one of the senior couples that was serving there. the Williams.
Darin Tingey: No way. Okay.
Brigitte Terry: So she was able to like get on a call.
Darin Tingey: Oh, yeah, yeah. Yep.
Brigitte Terry: with her and like she was telling us about the marshall islands and stuff and she was out on ebay at the time And... but Maybe I was a little nervous or something.
Brigitte Terry: But... She scared me so bad.
Darin Tingey: ha
Brigitte Terry: But she was like... Like, I don't know. I just really thought that I was going to be. literally in the middle of nowhere with nothing and that i had i was gonna die i thought i was gonna die
Darin Tingey: That's so funny.
Brigitte Terry: which god bless her because you know what it helped me like mentally prepare For the island.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. And then you got Madro and Madro was. Pretty good.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, Matt Joe's great.
Brigitte Terry: I remember landing and being like... This? is amazing like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: i don't I don't even know what I was thinking. But... I can't even... Sometimes I'm like, is this really, like... a third world country because I've got the grocery store that has all my favorite stuff.
Brigitte Terry: I mean, sometimes you don't have onions or butter, but I can i can get by.
Darin Tingey: Yep.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: hu
Darin Tingey: Yeah, Magero kind of has everything you need. Right.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Like it's. It's... It's pretty nice. It's, I mean, it's expensive.
Brigitte Terry: about Mhm.
Darin Tingey: And I think they put you guys up in pretty good housing these days.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: uh So it's like. I don't know. You hear the stories of the crazy stories, but really that's like the outer islands. And even then they're not even that crazy. So that's funny, though, that you're like, I'm going to die.
Brigitte Terry: soist the time
Darin Tingey: I'm going to die on this island. I have nothing there. That's too good. Did... Okay, so... How many people were in your MTC group?
Brigitte Terry: So we had eight people in my MTC group. my intake.
Darin Tingey: And when what what years did you serve?
Brigitte Terry: So four four girls and four boys, or sisters and others.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Uh, I served From January 2020. 5 to July 2026. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Okay. Gotcha.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: So A in your group.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And when you got to the mission.
Brigitte Terry: Mm -hmm.
Darin Tingey: Who was your mission president?
Brigitte Terry: It was President Kendall at the time.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: And then did you have him until... That July. Or when when did you get... new but Did you get a new mission president? Were you here for the new mission president?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, I'm pretty sure I got... a new president in july yeah president mail came in july
Darin Tingey: So you had six months with Kendall and then a year with...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Now, okay.
Darin Tingey: How is that? How is that? Like. change of like having one president and then six months later, it's totally different.
Brigitte Terry: I think for me, I love the Kendals. They were really, really great. I was able to... Like form a really close like bond with sister kendall
Darin Tingey: Mm hmm.
Brigitte Terry: for some reason and then the males came and they're also just so wonderful so i don't know i think The mission presidents, it's like they have definite like changes for the mission. They affect things, but.
Brigitte Terry: I don't know. I think for me the purpose is always just the same. and like the president like overseas and make sure people are make sure
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: sure people are getting the purpose. like you know. keeping that in their hearts and their minds so I don't know I didn't it didn't really like change my whole mission when the mission president changed.
Brigitte Terry: but
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I think it was just like the little things in between.
Darin Tingey: So was there like some mission cultural stuff that shifted at all of like. you know new mission presence comes in we're not doing this we are doing this or
Brigitte Terry: I don't know. like little things i remember Sister Kendall, she, er, the Kendels, they wouldn't. Let sisters wear like matching dresses and stuff. and then like the males came in and then all the sisters were like matching dresses all the time So I mean that stuff For sure.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But yeah.
Darin Tingey: That's kind of a weird rule. They wouldn't let you do matching dresses.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I don't know I just did what I was told.
Darin Tingey: Miss it? Yeah, mission presidents always make up the weirdest rules, and I'm like, why are we doing that? Why does that matter, you know? Uh...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. yeah
Darin Tingey: i I'm an armchair mission. president over here yeah sitting in my chair determining what the they should and shouldn't do. I'm not actually one doing it, so I...
Darin Tingey: I guess I can't really say, but you know. I like to give share my opinion that no one asked for.
Brigitte Terry: Mm -hmm.
Brigitte Terry: see
Darin Tingey: Did did did the I say that because I, you know, I.
Brigitte Terry: oh
Darin Tingey: if i i would I would love to be the mission president of that mission. because like I would just do it differently than my mission president did or something like that.
Brigitte Terry: o
Darin Tingey: But... Anyway. did Did your mission president spend... like equal time in marsh islands versus kitabas or were they in kitabas more often
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
Darin Tingey: Or the marshals more often.
Brigitte Terry: I'm pretty sure they split it evenly. That's what I was told. I wasn't really calculating in my head.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I kind of was just like, when's president gonna get here? And then they'd be like, I don't know, three weeks. And I'd be like, okay.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But I was told that they split time evenly, even though I think... It felt like... They were always in Kid Abyss, but... I'm sure. When it was like vice versa, I'm sure they always felt like.
Brigitte Terry: he was in the Marshall Islands.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: so what Okay, so you get to the mission. Uh...
Darin Tingey: What was your first area?
Brigitte Terry: My first area was Della.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Dallop. And then. I want to hear just a little bit more about like when you got there. How many sisters were in the mission?
Brigitte Terry: I... i think it was like 14?
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Maybe a little less, maybe a little more. Bye.
Darin Tingey: And were they all on Madro were or were there any on eBuy?
Brigitte Terry: So, two sisters were on eBuy. at that time.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And. And when you left... How many sisters were there?
Brigitte Terry: On eBay? Oh wait, when I left.
Darin Tingey: Just... In general, were there more sisters or about the same?
Brigitte Terry: It was starting to increase. Yeah, I think. It was like... 17?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But I left right before. All of the sisters came, so...
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Because there's like a huge wave since the new age change, right?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. There's a huge wave. Yeah We were getting like... nine sisters over the course of two transfers and like so many sisters were leaving too.
Brigitte Terry: So it's like.
Darin Tingey: That's crazy.
Brigitte Terry: Greenies were just like. Fresh out of Greening Hood training. people like oh my gosh yeah so It was crazy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the age change, I just... I see like tons of girls getting called to the marsh islands.
Brigitte Terry: e
Darin Tingey: Some sisters getting called Dimitri Archons. It's really cool to see like. full intakes of just sisters. like It's like, you never see that, right?
Brigitte Terry: oh yeah really really cool.
Darin Tingey: What about the elders? Was there like... Pretty consistent number from when you started to when you finished, you think?
Brigitte Terry: I would say. I think... For the most part, there was about like 50 missionary, 50. Marshall Islands missionaries at a time.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Give or take. But... I know that like... For the elders and sisters thing. One thing they were doing was they were like minimizing the maximum number of elders that could get called there.
Brigitte Terry: And then like. making like increasing the number of sisters that could get called there. So it was that's why there was like a huge.
Darin Tingey: Interesting.
Brigitte Terry: like, flip in the numbers, so...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mm -hmm, I'm sure that's gonna... be different.
Darin Tingey: Well, yeah, and it's going to totally change I mean, you have sisters basically, so you're on Madro and Ebay, right? Were there any sisters on eBay when you left?
Brigitte Terry: who
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: Okay. Because I know sometimes they have sisters out there, sometimes they don't. Is there a senior couple that's out on eBuy as well?
Brigitte Terry: No, so when the Kendall's left Ibai was closed for sisters. And then I think. It was...
Brigitte Terry: I think it was like... Two, three transfers with President Mayle before it would open back up again. four, sisters and there's no senior couple out there right now.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: So. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So elders and sisters, but no senior couple.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: All right.
Brigitte Terry: You gotta have space, right?
Darin Tingey: We're really trusting. we yeah Yeah, that's right. We are trusting the elders and sisters, which is good.
Brigitte Terry: Interesting. It's divine inspiration for sure.
Darin Tingey: that's That's right. What about Outer Islands? Any Outer Islands open?
Brigitte Terry: When I left, they had closed me lay. because the housing was I guess just horrible. Like someone was breaking in and stealing stuff. and and I'm like, okay, I mean.
Brigitte Terry: It's kind of like an outer island, but like I don't know.
Darin Tingey: That's typical. Yeah, that's just our own life. I don't know why they're complaining about.
Brigitte Terry: I don't know. Yeah, you should send me out there. I won't complain at all.
Darin Tingey: Eat.
Brigitte Terry: Just kidding.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it sounds like these elders are getting real soft.
Brigitte Terry: But... After that... I know they have Lai open. in What day? open. right now So yeah.
Darin Tingey: You know what they should do?
Brigitte Terry: What?
Darin Tingey: They should send sisters to lie.
Brigitte Terry: You know what? I like... was talking to one of the elders and they were like like joking about that they were like yeah sister's out and i was like send me Send me.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Because I... I know I say I'm from Newport Beach, but I actually like... Grew up overseas.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: So like, I was born in... Like... Colombia. And then...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I lived in Dubai, which is...
Darin Tingey: Alright.
Brigitte Terry: like different from Marshall Islands.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But then I also lived in...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I also lived in Indonesia for a while, and so... Like...
Darin Tingey: Okay. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: You know, I feel like I would have loved serving on Outer Island. I would have loved. Like just being out there. I don't mind the bucket showers and all that.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Totally.
Brigitte Terry: But I think it would have been so sick.
Darin Tingey: No, i I mean, so my mission president sent... Sister missionaries to outer islands on the Kitibba side.
Brigitte Terry: o
Darin Tingey: They were able to go, and the mission person before me did it as well. They were able to go to outer islands that... had like a branch a branch president to like run church right so as long as there was someone to run church and like someone to be able to baptize people
Brigitte Terry: missing
Darin Tingey: Then sisters could go. And so. lie would be perfect for that because they've got a ward and a bunch of priesthood holders and
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So I served on live back in the day as well. And I went back two years ago. uh, to visit.
Brigitte Terry: oh wow
Darin Tingey: And we stopped we slepted on live for a little bit. and The house, they've made it look, they've made the house really nice. And there's like. beds there. They have mattresses. like It is bougie.
Brigitte Terry: Well that's Luxury!
Darin Tingey: I'm like... Yeah, like this is crazy. I slept on the ground. But this is nice.
Brigitte Terry: Oh wow.
Darin Tingey: I was like.
Brigitte Terry: excuse
Darin Tingey: So. Honestly, they should send sisters to lie. It'd be it a fun change too. Because they've only had elders. And it'd be kind of cool for sisters to go out there.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: I think so too.
Darin Tingey: See I
Brigitte Terry: Sisters for life.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I mean... the imager and ebay are great but sometimes it's good to like get a different feel of like what the marsh islands are like and stuff and
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mm -hmm.
Darin Tingey: I don't know. I'm very pro open outer islands because it gets so packed on Maduro. Like you just have so many missionaries.
Brigitte Terry: So yeah.
Darin Tingey: And.
Brigitte Terry: Yes.
Darin Tingey: Too many missionaries doesn't actually mean more work. It means more hanging out. You know? yeah Like.
Brigitte Terry: Whoa! whoa Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I mean I'm just speaking the truth here Bridget.
Brigitte Terry: All right.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: No one wants to admit it, but that's what it is.
Brigitte Terry: I think someone wants to admit it.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: Hmm.
Darin Tingey: But anyway, I digress. So, okay. So let's hear your areas. quickly walk me through your areas and then we'll start from the beginning.
Brigitte Terry: Okay, yeah, so I started in Delop. for one transfer. Then I went to Rita.
Darin Tingey: Cam?
Brigitte Terry: for one transfer. And then I went to Long Island. And I stayed there for... Two transfers and then two weeks. And then...
Brigitte Terry: Our sister had to go home. And so I got E .T. It's your Uligar. And I stayed there for like six transfers.
Darin Tingey: Oh my gosh.
Brigitte Terry: then And then I went, oh wait. Yeah. And then I went to Dellup for one. And then I ended in Long Island for like two.
Darin Tingey: Wow
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Okay. So you, wow.
Brigitte Terry: yes
Darin Tingey: All right. that's That's kind of like whiplash the beginning of your mission.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: Uh... So... You land. You find out who your trainer is.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Did you have an American trainer or?
Brigitte Terry: No, my trainer was someone on her it was sister talataina
Darin Tingey: Who?
Brigitte Terry: sister tell me
Darin Tingey: how How was that having a Samoan trainer?
Brigitte Terry: She was the best.
Darin Tingey: Was that difficult? All right.
Brigitte Terry: I loved her.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: like I only had one American companion. And she was Samoan and from... Hawaii. But I loved. like all my comps i thought they were just the best and
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Because like either... Like, we just... got along well and we joked a lot or Like they just taught me something. So I'm just super grateful for all my comms, especially Sister Tala.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I love her to death. like that was the best trainer for me. Like God definitely picked the right one. And you know I got to stay with her. because we were indelible together at first.
Brigitte Terry: And then I went to Rita, but we stayed together. and then got the trio.
Darin Tingey: Oh, cool.
Brigitte Terry: with a Marshallese sister. Sister Thomas, so yeah. that was That was awesome.
Darin Tingey: How was learning the language for you?
Brigitte Terry: Oh my god. The language was was actually really hard for me. I think. I was way better at like speaking than understanding.
Brigitte Terry: Like I could.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I think... That's one of the reasons I love. sister Tala so much was She really pushed me with the language and we were both like... kind of helping each other out in the lessons. So it wasn't like...
Brigitte Terry: When I was a greenie, I was... Just like... sharing my testimony and then like saying a prayer I was like teaching full -blown lessons with sister tala and that really helped me with just speaking But man, the understanding part.
Brigitte Terry: They would always say like, oh, it comes with time. It comes with time. I was like, when is that going to happen? So, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, you're like, it's been a couple weeks now.
Brigitte Terry: that was
Brigitte Terry: It's been a couple years.
Darin Tingey: Nothing's happening.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah. Hmm.
Darin Tingey: Uh... It is. It is fun for the sisters. I feel like there's a few American sisters. And so you get to be with a lot of different.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Islander sisters. We had a ton of Tongans and Samoan sounds like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You probably did too. and uh They... i I feel like they pick up the language pretty pretty well, pretty quickly. But Marshallese is so unique.
Darin Tingey: it just It's like mumbling back of your throat, you know.
Brigitte Terry: Missing teeth.
Darin Tingey: High pitch. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: yeah And you're like. What the heck did they just say, you know?
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: It's just something your ears have never heard. And so just like getting your ears accustomed to it is so.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: difficult.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you... you know What was Delop like? What was Rita like with those first two transfers for you guys?
Brigitte Terry: i remember Well, dollop was my first area. And so I was like really overwhelmed. because we just had this like back street where like houses were just stacked on top of each other And I was like, how am I ever going to know what to do?
Brigitte Terry: Like, how am I going to know where to knock?
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Because I don't even know what's a house and what's just like. Someone's shab. And so one thing that I think really helped me was. One day I was just to my trainer, I was like...
Brigitte Terry: We just need to go through and knock. like go in a line and knock every single freaking house so that I can like understand what's going on. And she was like, okay. And so we did that and it really helped me like.
Brigitte Terry: like understand like how the work actually was gonna go and like It helped me like... really get desensitized to door knocking like
Darin Tingey: Mm.
Brigitte Terry: by the end i was like i could do home -to -home contacting like 24 7 like I had no problem with that at all but yeah just it helped me like understand The way you can like...
Brigitte Terry: tracked in busy areas. So that was really helpful for DELLUP. There... And then we went to Rita and like Rita. Has like some really crowded places and then it has some like houses that are really spread out kind of towards the end of the atoll
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: And so... it was cool to kind of be in a trio and have like a Marshallese speaker with us. And I think.
Darin Tingey: Did that help your language a lot?
Brigitte Terry: I want to say it did, but honestly, I don't know. Because...
Brigitte Terry: I like... I love just like... Having fun with my community. like obviously the spirit is present and we're like doing what we need to be doing but I think The way that I bonded and got along with my companions is that we just would like.
Brigitte Terry: laugh a lot. And I think. Sister Thomas, like... She really wanted to like improve her English. And... I think we kind of got lost in that.
Brigitte Terry: And I didn't take advantage of having a Marshallese comp for like one transfer as much as I should have.
Darin Tingey: You had to teach it.
Brigitte Terry: ahem But honestly, I would say... Like. at the end of our transfer together i could speak more confidently, understand more confidently. But. you know I think that might also just be from...
Brigitte Terry: being on the mission for a little bit longer.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Where she...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: uh awaiting a visa or something like that or was she actually called to the marsh islands
Brigitte Terry: no, so she was waiting for her visa. She was supposed to go to... Botswana.
Darin Tingey: Oh wow.
Brigitte Terry: And, like, she waited for freaking ever. I think. And then she got reassigned. to Australia. Sydney, Australia. And she would by the time she actually went to Australia, she was nine months into her mission.
Darin Tingey: Wow, she was...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: She was halfway.
Brigitte Terry: So... yeah and then she like served in the area where her parents lived so
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's so tough
Brigitte Terry: It was crazy. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: That's... That's probably why I know marshless people actually really get called to the marsh islands. It's like.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: Sssst! You get called to serve in your neighborhood, you know?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yep. Woo!
Darin Tingey: We had a few, we had. two missionaries that were Marshallese. that... actually served in the marsh islands the other ones that would get called my mission president would just send them to kitabas and the ones from kitabas they got called in kitabas he just sent them to the marsh islands
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Mmm.
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: He'd just be like, yeah, you called to this mission, but I'm going to send you to the other other country. So you get like a...
Brigitte Terry: I'm gonna do this. is
Darin Tingey: out of country experience, new language.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Kind of fun for them. did Did you have more success in Della or Rita?
Brigitte Terry: Rita.
Darin Tingey: And it's hard. You were there for a transfer each, right?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah!
Darin Tingey: like there's There's only so much you can do. in six weeks.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, I love Della, but I was sad to leave Della, but... i was Like. way sadder to leave Rita because I loved Rita and we had I think we got two baptisms there.
Brigitte Terry: but those people were like always gonna be baptized but yeah we were doing a lot more like like work that had you know success in Rita, I would say.
Darin Tingey: When you say those people were always going to be baptized, what do you mean by that? well but What was the story behind those two people?
Brigitte Terry: I think... Okay, so we baptized this boo -boo. names Uh, Lena. lina and this young girl i think it was her granddaughter named Linda. So Linda and Lena.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: And. They were in just like a full member household. And like. It was kind of... like we were kind of just helping them get there.
Brigitte Terry: I feel like for a lot of baptisms it's more about timing. I think a lot of missionaries, they just have the right timing to get
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: that person to baptism. And I've had a lot of experiences. or some experiences where you know, I feel like I actually played a part in being a vessel for the Lord.
Brigitte Terry: but i think for that one it was just like i know that I'm being a vet a vessel in like a smaller way because if any other missionary were there, it probably still would have happened.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. But still cool that you got to be.
Brigitte Terry: Okay. Yeah. a part of it.
Darin Tingey: You know the one to, yeah. let's kind of see the
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: the fruits of the labor of all the missionaries.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, that's what's special. It's like... the field is ripe and ready to harvest. and It's like some people are the ones that are like doing the work and like planting the seeds.
Brigitte Terry: and then other people like come through and they you know are able to you know finish that work off and Like... reap the benefits, and help the Lord finishes. his will with them.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: uh, was Was President Thiebaud, was he in the Ward?
Brigitte Terry: President Thibin. He was in the Rita ward, but he, like, he was always at another ward.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: i think because he was he was state president so Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You need to stake president twice.
Brigitte Terry: But he got released recently.
Darin Tingey: I know, present.
Brigitte Terry: Stay present. twice
Darin Tingey: President Betty.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, crazy. President Betty, man.
Darin Tingey: Right? I'm so pumped about President Betty.
Brigitte Terry: That's crazy. I'm so excited for him.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: He is awesome.
Darin Tingey: So he was actually... in the state presidency when I was. when I served my mission. So...
Brigitte Terry: Betty or T -Bone?
Darin Tingey: Betty was in the...
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: presidency. So Arlington Sieben was the very first stake president in Maduro.
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: From my what I have what i my knowledge.
Brigitte Terry: oh Yeah. mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: And so then it was funny that he got called again.
Brigitte Terry: su
Darin Tingey: President Betty. was in the stake presidency when I served. And then... And then he was released. And then I think later Bishop of Delaware board. Right. And then just got called a stake president.
Darin Tingey: I'm pumped about him. Like he's heard his mission in the marsh islands. He's very much like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: build Zion in the marsh islands like We're going to go at it.
Brigitte Terry: <unk>
Darin Tingey: And... I love that. The Marshalls needs that.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mhm.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: you
Darin Tingey: So, Kate, you leave Rita.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And then you go to... Long Island, is that right?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. I went to Long Island.
Darin Tingey: what was What was your thought?
Brigitte Terry: I was. there yeah
Darin Tingey: I mean, you're like, Delop and Rita is like City, and then Long Island's kind of like the start. of the countryside.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's like the suburbs, you know?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, this suburb. the suburbs of Marshall Islands.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I think... I did a lot better in Long Island. I think the other two places are a lot more fast -paced and like... There's like people, well more people.
Brigitte Terry: i don't think the Marshall Islands has a lot of people but there's like more people in those places.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: And more just kind of going on, more cars and stuff. but I think Long Island was like the start of like more rural area, so it's slower.
Brigitte Terry: And. I found it a lot easier to like... Talk to people and like go up to them and like go to their houses and stuff I don't know why that is. I think maybe it's just like.
Brigitte Terry: I thrive better in slower paced places. and i Was really able to because I was there for two transfers Two transfers in two weeks, i I felt like I was really able to.
Brigitte Terry: connect with people more. and really like build actual relationships with the teaching friends and members. And, you know. put people on date and feel like i like played a actual part and Helping them.
Brigitte Terry: come closer to Jesus Christ and having it be like Like, I am a part of it. It's not just like... accomplished by some missionaries like Sister Terry was able to be a part of that.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: And I just felt really close to that area. And the members were just so great. and I loved them. and the people that i was able to teach i also just i have I just love them so much and out of all my
Darin Tingey: Tell me one of those stories. Yeah, tell me one of those stories of of some success you had in Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: One of the successes was with this couple, Freddie and Louisa. So Freddie was a member, but an active member, but Lisa, she was just studying with the missionaries.
Brigitte Terry: And the elders had referred. her to us. and we had started teaching with them and at first she She was kind of like standoffish, didn't really want to talk to us, didn't really like care what we had to say.
Brigitte Terry: i just because I think she was a shyer person. And... with time like we were able to go over and just start building on that like relationship that we had with her in the first place and she was able to kind of open up and be more open to like coming to church and like keeping her commitments and actually participating in lessons and asking questions.
Brigitte Terry: And. It was... Kind of like... the spirit. I just always felt the spirit when we were in lessons with her. And Freddie. And it was just really cool to...
Brigitte Terry: see the Lord's hand in her life and like the way he was really helping her. like prepare for baptism and we were able to put her on date. And that was really cool.
Brigitte Terry: I think it was like her birthday that we put her on date to get married and baptized.
Darin Tingey: Oh cool.
Brigitte Terry: And. you know she went from this like standoffish person to like if she saw me in public she would like come up and hug me and like be like sister terry Where have you been?
Brigitte Terry: And, you know, I wasn't able to be there for her baptism. Because I got switched to a different area, but... I just... We'll always remember her. And she's just like one of my favorite people that I've like ever taught. just because she was able to.
Brigitte Terry: honestly have a change of of heart towards the missionaries and towards baptism. And I just, I love her.
Darin Tingey: It's always so fun to see the change in somebody.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: You know, you saw it of like standoffish doesn't really want to do anything with you. And then it's like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Thank you.
Darin Tingey: Super happy when she sees you probably because you helped her come closer to Christ, right?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: It's like that that right there is like, all right, this is why I'm out here.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You know, like it's hard, but like this is the reason.
Brigitte Terry: 100%.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: uh That's self unwear and so So. Again. Long Island's pretty big. and you probably had several sets of missionaries in it did you guys like break it up to where yeah The sisters.
Darin Tingey: You covered. this area of long island or did you get to do all of Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, so at first when I was first there, we just had like a a certain area. We were just Long Island Central. And then sometimes we would go into the elders area. if they wanted us to like teach with a woman that was there.
Brigitte Terry: vice versa if we had a man that we wanted the elders to teach with, we would like have the elders come into our area and teach with them.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So yeah, that's how it was at first. The second time I was there... We covered all of Long Island though. So. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Do you have a car?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah we did. That was nice.
Darin Tingey: Nice. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But the sisters before us did not have a car and that was I'm sure really hard.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's so tough Long Island truly is long. I mean
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So it's Agile Doggy and...
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: The Arak -Lora area is too. Uh,
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I also served in Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: Mmm.
Darin Tingey: I lived in the chapel house behind. the chapel there.
Brigitte Terry: Oh wow.
Darin Tingey: Mistake center.
Brigitte Terry: The infamous chapel house.
Darin Tingey: is so tiny. uh But we we would take like basically from there towards the airport. And I kind of wish we got to go over.
Darin Tingey: Like all of Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: Just because. the members live throughout. So you get to know like some of the members, but not all of them. uh was the bishop bishop telelege Was it Albin or was it? uh bishop levi when you were there
Brigitte Terry: our Bishop Delegate.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So Bishop Delegate Albin, he was a... Pilot. Did he tell you that he's a pilot?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: or he used to be, he got he retired.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: He's the man.
Brigitte Terry: I love him.
Darin Tingey: He's awesome. He was in the bishopric when I served.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so they were the bishopric. for 10 plus years. Uh... which is crazy and then it's just funny that like
Brigitte Terry: Wow.
Darin Tingey: president Bishop Levi gets called into the stake presidency and then... Uh...
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: And then Albin becomes bishop. I'm like, dude, you've been in the bishopric for over a decade.
Darin Tingey: That is crazy.
Brigitte Terry: He's the best. I love him. For real.
Darin Tingey: Did you ever meet the Bowdoins while you were there?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I did. i served in their ward. i Well, I've served in their ward for a long time. That was my longest area.
Darin Tingey: In Uluga, right?
Brigitte Terry: Oh, my God.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, yeah. So did you know that he baptized Albin?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I did not know that.
Darin Tingey: Fish up to the guy Yeah, so he...
Brigitte Terry: That's crazy.
Darin Tingey: He... The baptize he found and baptize. Peace of java gear.
Brigitte Terry: He should talk about that more often. What the heck?
Darin Tingey: Yeah. i did a podcast with him you can go listen to it he talks about it which is Which is fun.
Brigitte Terry: Oh. okay okay
Darin Tingey: No, it's fun.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: uh And I met Shemiko when she was in Ashtagi and they were like dating long distance when he was in Australia. Anyway.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: Siding out. Did did you? did Was there a Kiribati branch in Long Island at the time? Did they do any sort of Kiribati?
Brigitte Terry: No. I don't think we had kid a bit like any kitabus anything.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: while I was there. for any word. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: When I came back. so i served marsh islands i went to kitabist and i came back to the marsh islands i started a kid as cannabis branch in Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: oh
Darin Tingey: And I ran that.
Brigitte Terry: That's really cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, it was super fun. I got to go all over Maduro. talking to anyone that was kid of us.
Brigitte Terry: oh wow
Darin Tingey: And that was super fun to run that. And then I think it basically lasted until COVID and then it kind of. Died. Because a lot of things died during COVID.
Brigitte Terry: thing. Mhm.
Darin Tingey: But the... but there's a cannabis guy in the bishopric. Isn't he? In Long Island?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: What's his name?
Brigitte Terry: So.
Darin Tingey: Tabureka? something like that
Brigitte Terry: Tabureka. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Abureka. Yeah, I remember him still.
Brigitte Terry: He is the best. I love him.
Darin Tingey: He's the man. He's a good dude.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Long Island's funny.
Brigitte Terry: x finger chi
Darin Tingey: It's like you'll get there and it's like... Long Island's funny. Like you you go to church and it's like. Okay. They speak in Marshallese and then some girl gets up and gives a talk. in perfect English.
Darin Tingey: And then you have like kid abyss.
Brigitte Terry: Oh. over
Darin Tingey: And then you're like, what the heck? Like what's going on here? Long Island is such a weird, like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: hodgepodge of marshallese english cannabis speakers
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, because we... We have a lot of senior missionaries in that ward.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: And so we'd have to like translate for them. And whenever... Tapureko would get up, I'd just be like, oh okay, it's my break time. Because he would just speak in English. So that they can, you know, because.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: he you know he He says that he can understand Marshallese.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: but he like really doesn't know how to speak it. So... That's fine. And then...
Darin Tingey: So funny.
Brigitte Terry: For like... I think it's like the fourth Sunday or something. They'll have like the youth speak. And like half of them just speak in English. And so.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: yeah it's just like it's a mix for sure you never know who's going to speak and sometimes they'll bless the the sacrament and in English too.
Darin Tingey: English
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, my last Sunday I was like, okay, this is my last time. hearing the sacrament in Marshallese, and the guy blessed it in English, so I was like, oh, okay. Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: But yeah.
Darin Tingey: it's It's kind of like... It's kind of annoying. You're like, just speak Marshallese. We're here in the Marshall Islands. I'm trying to learn the language.
Brigitte Terry: who
Darin Tingey: and
Darin Tingey: I don't know. I was always like Just speak Marshallese. But I honestly think those kids don't even know how to speak Marshallese. I think they just know how to speak English from school.
Brigitte Terry: who I don't...
Darin Tingey: It's kind of sad, you know.
Brigitte Terry: You know what it is. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I think the the language is dying.
Brigitte Terry: What?
Darin Tingey: It's really sad.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. It's sad. I would say... A lot of the youth still speak it. I mean they still know English. Apparently in schools, they like don't like.
Brigitte Terry: teach English until fourth grade. because they want them to like keep the marshallese language alive but
Darin Tingey: Thank you.
Brigitte Terry: I don't... i don't know because a lot of the kids on the streets will yell at us in english so maybe they just think we know more.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I I they need more. Marshallese. Language. Especially on Madro. Uh, you buy like outer islands, like they're.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: you know they don't speak very much much english it's marshallese but
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, they're fine.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: the main islands it's like kind of it's really sad to see kids grow up and then they speak English rather than Marshallese. as their preferred language.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: And I'm like, what the heck? you know like They might be able to speak Marshallese, but their preferred language is English. And it kind of makes me sad.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, for sure. Well, I think they also grow up a lot on like social media and stuff, and so they're always seeing people speak English on there.
Darin Tingey: I don't know
Brigitte Terry: And so they're probably like, well, I want to speak English like them. And they don't really want to.
Darin Tingey: That's true.
Brigitte Terry: to be commercialized so yeah that is sad
Darin Tingey: That's true. I didn't think about that
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: Uh, Okay, so a Long Island for two transfers in two weeks, then emergency transfer. To Oolaga.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. To Oliver, yeah. And I was in Uluga and I went. with sister Elisaia who she had just gotten back from ebay And so she was just like. cracked at the language cracked at the work and like just so good at everything i was like oh my gosh Oh, and I was like seven months in.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: well Yeah, that's when I... I got called as sister training leader too.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: At seven months. And so I was with Ellie Sia, who was just so... You know, she, like, knew her stuff, knew the language. And I was like, okay, well. So I'm just gonna... Like, follow you and please help me. yeah But yeah.
Darin Tingey: Where was she from?
Brigitte Terry: She was from Melbourne, Australia, but she's Tongan Tuvaluan.
Darin Tingey: oh Cool.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Very cool. So she was just like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Language is crushing it. working hard and you're just like, all right, here we go.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like, this is it.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh, yeah. I was like, oh, here's my time.
Darin Tingey: I mean, Uliga. Yeah, yeah So just just one set of STLs in the Marshalls.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Brigitte Terry: Okay, so we had, when I got called, we had two. And then... It stayed that way for a little bit and then it went back down to one. And so that then it was one for. and Until I ended.
Brigitte Terry: my mission.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: What was the point of two sets of STLs, just like one in each zone? or
Brigitte Terry: One in each zone, yeah. And then... I was over the east. And then... the west there was like not enough sisters to have two sets. And so it just went.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: back down to one. And then the sisters like kept multiplying and there was still just like one. And we were supposed to do like exchanges with them every week. And so it was just like so crazy.
Darin Tingey: That's crazy. You're like not even working with your companion.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. although
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: That's nuts.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh. Back to back to back exchanges. Yeah. Hmm.
Darin Tingey: Every week is actually wild that you do that.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I think it's, I thought it was like one of the transfer, but. Once a week.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I guess.
Darin Tingey: All right.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, that's definitely one of the changes that president mail brought is he wanted exchanges like a lot more
Darin Tingey: Really?
Brigitte Terry: And so we really push for that.
Darin Tingey: What? what was the reason for that? Did he say?
Brigitte Terry: I think. it was just having a good influence on like the elders and sisters and then like for training purposes as well. just making sure that like we know what's going on with the missionaries and we're able to you know help them as much as we can.
Brigitte Terry: and like as people from Like the... MLC I guess.
Darin Tingey: Mm -hmm.
Brigitte Terry: So. That was cool. i just I also just loved being with the sisters. I was with. you know i i just I really adored the times that I spent with them.
Brigitte Terry: And so i I really didn't mind it. although it could i was it was busy. It was busy and yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah I bet.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh, yeah.
Darin Tingey: So did you spend any, like, I mean, you started... Six. Transfers in Uliga.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: This is funny. I also do. That's my final area.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: so Did you like... Did you feel like you actually spent time with another guy or? Or do you run transfers like exchanges so much?
Brigitte Terry: I think because I was in Uluga for so long, I felt like I i was.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. yeah
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Oh. I love Uluga too. And the members there were just so great. And... Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I feel like... some of my favorite stories are from Uluga like My most spiritual.
Darin Tingey: Let's hear them.
Brigitte Terry: Oh, okay. I can start with like a small one, but I... was I just like felt so sick one day.
Brigitte Terry: Like, you know, where you just like feel it coming and you're like. This is going to be bad. And I was like.
Darin Tingey: Like... Like, you're just feeling crappy.
Brigitte Terry: I don't even know what it was. It was like a fever.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So like I was getting like body aches and stuff.
Darin Tingey: It's achy.
Brigitte Terry: yeah achy it was bad
Darin Tingey: Yeah, totally.
Brigitte Terry: And I was like, I need a priesthood blessing. like right now. And it was like nighttime and we had to like call our DL and all this stuff. And I was like, I need you to come to the chapel right now and give me a priesthood blessing. So we were able to like get it set up.
Brigitte Terry: He was able to give me a blessing. And. And then that night I was like, I know. that this blessing is going to heal me. and And the next day I woke up.
Brigitte Terry: And I was like... I f - like felt like it was like kind of muffled my sickness was kind of muffled
Darin Tingey: Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: which was cool. And we were on exchange that day. So I was like, I can't even... Like, I have to have this sister work with me today.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: because you know we want to like meet our goals and we want to show the sisters that like you're like strong enough to to get things done when you're sick and so we're like going about our day and And.
Brigitte Terry: The blessing really... pulled through for me. And then... We had like almost reached our lessons with members participating goal. And it just starts like pouring rain.
Brigitte Terry: pouring rain and you know like to get a member to participate you have to like walk them from one house to another and like who's gonna walk in this rain and i was like
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Nobody.
Brigitte Terry: Nobody. And I'm like with this greenie. And I'm like, no. We are going to get a member to this lesson. And so we run to the lesson. with our rain jackets on and we're like, we'll be right back. We're going to go grab a member. And the people inside are like, what are you talking about?
Brigitte Terry: it's pouring and we're like we'll be right back and then we go over to the side of the house i'm like we need to pray right now. And so we like offer this prayer. and in my head i'm like if the lord wants a member of this lesson he is going to stop this rain right now and then within like seconds of our amen of the prayer like the rain just stops Like.
Darin Tingey: No way.
Brigitte Terry: And there's still clouds in the sky. Like you can't even see the stars. It's like it could still be raining.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: And. it like just stops raining. And we like book it to this member's house. We're like, please join us for a lesson. This member was kind of flaky sometimes, but this time she was like, yes, I'm coming. And so she like walks all of the way this lesson.
Brigitte Terry: And it was just like. Such a powerful lesson. The spirit was so strong. This woman was just so amazing sharing her testimony. And then, you know, we walk her back to her house and we.
Brigitte Terry: end the lesson and it starts pouring rain again as soon as she's back in her house.
Darin Tingey: No way
Brigitte Terry: so that's probably my favorite story of just like like tender mercies of like if the lord if it's the lord's will He will get it done. And the Lord wanted.
Brigitte Terry: a member at that lesson that night, so.
Darin Tingey: That's so cool. I mean...
Brigitte Terry: eighteen
Darin Tingey: Yeah, and the Marsh Islands, for those listening that have no idea. when it rains no one does anything no one's going out of their house they're all sleeping
Brigitte Terry: Mm -mm. Nope.
Darin Tingey: You know. There's... there. There's nothing. that it's it's If it's raining, everyone's asleep. laying down.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's like, what are you doing here?
Brigitte Terry: 100%.
Darin Tingey: Uh, So really.
Brigitte Terry: you
Darin Tingey: uh what a cool story that you could pray for that. You know, like if, if it's God's will that this happened, like it'll, he'll make a way and it, and it happened.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm. Anyway.
Darin Tingey: That is so cool.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you... Did you spend a lot of time with the members in Uluga? I mean, the Ackley's are a classic one. Did you spend a lot of time at the Ackley house?
Brigitte Terry: Classic. i Honestly... I feel like the athletes were gone a lot when I was there, which is ironic.
Darin Tingey: Interesting.
Brigitte Terry: But.
Darin Tingey: Like visiting the States or where?
Brigitte Terry: I don't even know I think so But they were kind of just like on a lot. I was there like... Like every now and again, but I feel like I was with the rings. More.
Brigitte Terry: Like the ring family.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: They're just the best. we we're able to baptized one of the kids that lived in that house. Oh.
Darin Tingey: Is he the bishop? No. Who's the Bishop of Uluga?
Brigitte Terry: No, Henry. Henry Henry is the...
Darin Tingey: Henry. Henry, Henry, yes.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Oh my gosh, that. i He is so awesome.
Darin Tingey: So funny about Henry. He was... recently returned missionary. When I got home, when I was there serving a hooliga.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: He served in Papua New Guinea. And.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: He was totally inactive. didn't come to church.
Brigitte Terry: Oh dang.
Darin Tingey: Like back. backslid like type of deal. I think he married the girl that.
Brigitte Terry: a
Darin Tingey: He had a kid with. but like he like felt guilty and like did not want to come back
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so it's so cool seeing him now as the Bishop. And I'm like,
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: Yes, let's go. And that is like. That's honestly like the... pattern in the Marshall Islands and probably throughout the world.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: but especially in the Marshall Islands, like you go on a mission, you come home. Most likely you backslide. They stop coming to church for a while. They, you know. they'll often you know i'm not this This is not everybody, but this happens often.
Darin Tingey: And then, they'll you know, maybe get pregnant or get someone pregnant and then they end up getting married and then they're up and then they come back, you know, and then they're super active again.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, yeah
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: So it's super fun to see him as a bishop because I remember visiting him.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: oh yeah
Darin Tingey: While I was a missionary, I'm like. What's up, dude? like You're a returning missionary. Why don't you come to church? you know
Brigitte Terry: oh That makes me like so hopeful for the future. of like people that kind of like aren't active anymore but like
Darin Tingey: Totally.
Brigitte Terry: I think in the Marshall Islands there's just always a chance that they're going to come back just swinging.
Darin Tingey: 100%.
Brigitte Terry: So yeah. yeah He actually served with one of my MTC intakes brother.
Darin Tingey: No way
Brigitte Terry: So, Mr. Toloapea, he served with her brother in Papua New Guinea.
Darin Tingey: That's so cool
Brigitte Terry: Crazy, but yeah. He's awesome. Yeah, so I spent a lot of time with the rings And I spent a lot of time with our new member family, which was the Bungalicks.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: who they were just like, oh my gosh, when I talk about families that I loved, I loved the Bungalows.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: We were able to also baptize. The mom's sister. And she's like. Like she is probably one baptism that like I will forever remember.
Brigitte Terry: I just love her name is Mary Linda. She was just like... I just always felt the spirit with her. It was really cool. Kind of like we were talking about.
Darin Tingey: Tell me more about.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, tell me more about her.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, so we found her because she came to church with her family. Like...
Darin Tingey: Oh, cool. Love that.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Because they had a...
Darin Tingey: Makes it easy.
Brigitte Terry: like they have like most Marshallese households, there's a million people living in their house, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: and so you know you never know who's interested who's not and like you'll ask them and they'll kind of be wishy -washy and... But like, Mary Linda like came to church and we were like, who? Who is that? And she sang in the YSA choir.
Brigitte Terry: And they're like... Hoo! Who is that? and and And they were like, oh my gosh, that's like. Melina's sister we were like oh my gosh and so we started studying with her and she was kind of like Not really into it.
Brigitte Terry: Kind of like Luisa.
Darin Tingey: Interesting.
Brigitte Terry: yeah we we would be like okay so like who's jesus christ here and she's like i don't know And be like, okay. So it's really like a like a ground level. type thing where
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: we we were really just trying to like find out why she should care and help her. understand like how he can help her, Jesus Christ can help her.
Brigitte Terry: And Mary Linda, I think. She had a lot of kind of odds stacked against her. She had like a really, really hard life. and we were able to like learn more about her and become really close with her.
Brigitte Terry: just kind of as she like opened up about some of her hardships that she had had. And people like always underestimated her. They were always like saying that she like wasn't. super intelligent or wasn't super smart.
Darin Tingey: Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: And, I think that kind of got to her a little bit. and she kind of didn't really believe that she could remember things or do things that were particularly hard.
Brigitte Terry: And so we started teaching with her and she had kind of trouble remembering things. And so we really had to like. find ways to help her remember like we had like you know whiteboards we'd bring to lessons or we'd play games or we you know read from the pokemon with her we would just like try to find all these different ways to like teach her and it really like opened my eyes and kind of like reignited my because at this point I
Brigitte Terry: been on my mission for quite a while and you kind of you kind of get the routine and I think with her she was really like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: She was opening my eyes of like, wow, like. You really - this is really about them. And you need to change the way you teach for them, like adjust to their needs and help them understand.
Darin Tingey: Have.
Brigitte Terry: And you know by the end of it, she was she had a full testimony of Jesus Christ. and she passed her baptismal interview which she was like so nervous for and We were like helping her with like.
Brigitte Terry: helping her to like not be nervous for it and she just she is someone that I will always think about. Like... when I think I've seen the Lord's hand in someone's life. just in the middle of nowhere and the middle of the pacific oceans like The Lord loves Mary Linda.
Brigitte Terry: and he helped her remember. all these important parts of his gospel. And it just changed her. And, in you know, she had that hard life. And now she has.
Brigitte Terry: the Savior who can help her. through those like hard times that she remembers so that's just such a I just love that family. Ta -da.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. That's so cool.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Again, you were there to... help her understand the gospel and And help her understand that, like, God. God loves her and that she's a daughter of God, right?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: because
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: Like you said, stuff I got to her mind of. you know you're not you're not smart you know probably a lot of self -doubt that she had or
Brigitte Terry: know
Darin Tingey: insecurities. But here you guys are taking the time to sit down with her teacher.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Teach her in in different ways that she could understand it. And... And now she's got. You know. That understanding. of Christ and the gospel.
Brigitte Terry: e
Darin Tingey: so So super cool. I mean, Again, that's what missionary work is all about, is is those moments.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Uh, Did you spend time with the Enos family at all?
Brigitte Terry: Oh, okay. So, when I was there, he... was I think in the Philippines?
Darin Tingey: becoming a doctor.
Brigitte Terry: yeah yeah And so.
Darin Tingey: He spent a lot of time from away from home.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Even when I was there, he was doing he was in the Philippines.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah. So they they were kind of. preoccupied and then they had this woman in their house that was a new member from the States.
Brigitte Terry: That was like... I don't know she was very pregnant. And... We like would teach lessons with her so we would go over to like teach the lessons but i don't know we we didn't spend a lot of time at the you know says i think his at first we didn't know if we were allowed to because
Brigitte Terry: there was like oh gosh what was it i think there was like a border Like it was on the line between Delop and wolaa and like that's when The bishops were like cracking down.
Brigitte Terry: Versus like, what's Dalep and what's Ulugas? And we were like, okay.
Darin Tingey: Oh really?
Brigitte Terry: we don't really want to mess with that so we wouldn't really go over to the delop area as much, which is kind of where they live.
Darin Tingey: Wait, that's funny that it was like this is the border. These are the boundaries
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, yeah
Darin Tingey: I guess you guys have it on your phone now, huh? So you can see
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: where the boundary is, technically.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Or not.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, well, yeah, we can. They also just told us it was like this back road. the kind of went in front of the Innocence House.
Darin Tingey: Interesting. Yeah, I know.
Brigitte Terry: So.
Darin Tingey: I am picturing where they live, kind of by the chapel.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you live at the chapel house there?
Brigitte Terry: So. No. We lived in, honestly, all the places I lived were really great.
Darin Tingey: Oh.
Brigitte Terry: They would, like... Interchange. because like elders and sisters they kind of would like swap where they lived Except, I think, in, like, the Delop and Uluga sister apartments. In Rita, we lived in this house This huge house.
Brigitte Terry: But like... The stove burned my eyelashes and my eyebrows off. So, I don't know.
Darin Tingey: what
Brigitte Terry: I guess that was the worst place I lived.
Darin Tingey: How did that happen?
Brigitte Terry: oh You know, it was a gas stove and...
Darin Tingey: Oh.
Brigitte Terry: Just kind of.
Darin Tingey: No way.
Brigitte Terry: were right in my face. and After that, we got a stove top. set off the I think the CO... CO alarm, too. And so yeah, the elders got a new stove when they went in there.
Brigitte Terry: but we didn't, so that was the worst housing that I had. But it was still really nice. So we always had really good housing. I never lived in the chapel house. and I heard that those were... I guess pretty.
Brigitte Terry: Not. the best.
Darin Tingey: I mean, they're fine. They've got everything you need. They're small. They're not like anything.
Brigitte Terry: she
Darin Tingey: Yeah, they're not anything nice. uh bougie, I guess.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And I say bougie, but it's all relative.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Well, I guess all the housing now is kind of... I mean, the Long Island, the logic car apartments, that's... That's living in luxury. For sure.
Darin Tingey: That yes. Yes. Lazy car.
Brigitte Terry: So. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Oh man. Yeah, that didn't... That's funny. Actually, I think about it. I lived in that I started in three different areas on Madro. So I started on eBuy.
Brigitte Terry: Peace.
Darin Tingey: You buy two. for one transfer. of the chapel house at Azazaki. And then I went to Kitterbisk and Outer Island and Kitterbisk. And then I came back to the Marshalls. served in Long Island.
Darin Tingey: Chapel House in Long Island.
Brigitte Terry: Oh wow.
Darin Tingey: And then I went to lie. And then from Lai to Uluga. chapel Actually, I didn't live in the chapel house. I didn't live in the chapel house in Delaware.
Brigitte Terry: Okay, okay.
Darin Tingey: I lived. In the apartment on the yard on the lagoon. I don't think any missionaries live there.
Brigitte Terry: Was it the green one?
Brigitte Terry: No. Probably not.
Darin Tingey: Gosh, I don't even know
Brigitte Terry: the
Darin Tingey: I don't know how to explain it.
Brigitte Terry: There was bun eight
Darin Tingey: anymore There is...
Brigitte Terry: There was one place that was like called the Monster House, but... I never lived there.
Darin Tingey: It used to be where the... What's the Tongan family? Sarah my Jeremiah's Uh...
Brigitte Terry: oh
Darin Tingey: Is there a Tongan family in Uluga anymore or or on Majuro in general?
Brigitte Terry: Probably. I don't think we
Darin Tingey: He used to be in the stake presidency. Anyway.
Brigitte Terry: oh yeah yeah yeah
Darin Tingey: We lived right up above them.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. I remember. I think he he yeah he just got released, yeah.
Darin Tingey: They use... And I think they moved, but they used to live in Oolaga and we lived right above them.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: which was fun because we got to eat a little lot of tongan food
Darin Tingey: And then were the Bowdoins in your award as well?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, they were in the Uluga ward.
Darin Tingey: Did you see them ever or not really?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, we saw them. on Sundays. They're really cool. We would sometimes go over and... And... like talk with shimiko and stuff so
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: That was good.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, she's from Ashitake, so she was there when I... When I was there. So fun.
Brigitte Terry: said nothing
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Darin Tingey: All right. Being Oolaga for so long. Uh, Did you... Did you get kind of...
Darin Tingey: Tired of the area. I guess. I don't know a better way to say that.
Brigitte Terry: Oh, yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It's a long time. I mean, six transfers.
Brigitte Terry: It's a long time. Yeah, it was... Well, I think I got... a Good deal, because I got to like leave the area every now and again. well actually all the time for exchanges so I wasn't as tired of it as I probably should have been.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: But yeah, walking down that same road every day. So like at some point it just starts killing you man You're just like, oh my gosh, like I have to walk down that same road.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: again and see like the same people and Not that there's a problem with that, but.
Darin Tingey: No, yeah as a missionary
Brigitte Terry: It does get. a little tiring. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It feels like, man, I've already talked to everyone.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Surprisingly, though.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You find random pockets of people you didn't know exist like existed.
Brigitte Terry: 100%.
Darin Tingey: You're like, oh, what the heck? There's houses back here. not many people lived here, you know, and then.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: Then you're exploring another area for another day or so.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. What's crazy is just like... Majuro doesn't even have that many people. And yet like. The work is still there. Like people are still finding people. There's still baptisms and it's just so cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Like, the Lord really is hastening his work. is I mean, if anywhere is going to. like start not having baptisms it's like the places with less people right but no there's like always somebody to teach and always someone to
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Go see.
Darin Tingey: Did you guys spend any time in Mexico? Cheers. You know that area of Uluga?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Remind me of... i
Darin Tingey: Mm. Mirko's like...
Brigitte Terry: I've definitely
Darin Tingey: On the...
Darin Tingey: Furthest east side. of the, of Uluga, it's like Uluga -gendric kind of border.
Brigitte Terry: in Oh yeah yeah yeah.
Darin Tingey: Uh, And it's like kind of really poor area. And there's a big man. Yeah, but there's a big kid of us. presence there did you ever go to that area i don't know if you did or not
Brigitte Terry: I don't think so. I think we'd go over there because that's where Henry Henry lived.
Darin Tingey: Yes. Yes, that's right.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mm -hmm.
Darin Tingey: It's close to where Henry... Henry Henry lives.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. That's where Henry Henry lived. But... I think, honestly, the Marshall Islands is starting to change. Because, like, that downtown Uluga now is, like...
Brigitte Terry: It's got a lot of shops and stuff, and, like, there's, like, oh, the pocket, that, Henry Henry lives in the pocket of Kid Abyss people.
Darin Tingey: Mm.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm talking about.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: Right there. There's like a ton of kiddos people there.
Brigitte Terry: yeah Yeah, so we would go there. Yeah, and all the kids would... We'd yell Maori at them. and
Darin Tingey: yeah
Brigitte Terry: That's about all I know.
Darin Tingey: Mmm.
Brigitte Terry: But yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. there's a member There's a member family back there.
Brigitte Terry: Mmm.
Darin Tingey: The... they When I did the cannabis branch, they would come. the The dad was... pretty inactive, but the wife was very devout.
Brigitte Terry: Mm.
Darin Tingey: And she's awesome. she When I went back two years ago, I brought my wife and my parents. And. She hosted us. And we had at a big party with all the kiddos people there.
Darin Tingey: And it was really fun for her because she said. Everyone here is Catholic. And I'm the only member of the LDS church.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: And. It was just fun. She was like, this you know this elder served here. and It is. it was like It was such a fun party. All the kids danced for us. They did a bunch of dances. food the whole nine yards it was uh it was super fun that was the good thing i got to do like
Brigitte Terry: That is so cool.
Darin Tingey: going across Madra and like meeting every kid of this person. I got to just like. build a relationship with them because they didn't expect a white dude to be speaking Kiribati to them in the Marshall Islands.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: In the Marshall Islands, yeah. Yeah. That's creepy.
Darin Tingey: which It was super fun. Okay, so Oolaga. And then. Did you finish Nuga or did you go back to Long Island?
Brigitte Terry: No, We move to Delop. Because...
Darin Tingey: That's right. Gallup.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I don't remember. There was a reason we moved to Delo. Yeah, we moved to Della. And that was good because it was a huge area. and The sisters were struggling to like walk.
Darin Tingey: isn
Brigitte Terry: like from one end of it to the other. And we had the car.
Darin Tingey: Pretty big. I mean...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Bridge all the way to the church, basically.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, so we had the car so we were able to go and work in Delop and that was cool because that was like my first area and so I was able to go back to that war. and be like, guys, I'm i'm like different now.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I... they would make you go up and like bear your testimony. I was like. Hey, do you remember, you know, the the white girl that came here and didn't know any Marshallese? Well, she's back and she knows a little bit more.
Brigitte Terry: But, i yeah.
Darin Tingey: okay It's awesome.
Brigitte Terry: I love making the Marshallese people laugh. That's probably my favorite thing. like other than feel the spirit make them laugh that's the best part
Darin Tingey: They love to laugh, yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, but yeah, they were we were in Delaware for one transfer. And then we moved. to Long Island. Yeah. And because...
Brigitte Terry: We became an STL Trio. And then we that was nice because we also had the car. so
Darin Tingey: Right. There you go.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, and then I ended my mission in Long Island, which was great. Because I loved Long Island. I thought Long Island was just awesome.
Darin Tingey: It is so good.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: A lot of kiddos were born in Long Island too, yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. the one kid of his family. Oh gosh.
Brigitte Terry: Something with a B. I don't know. Anyway.
Darin Tingey: Did you just spend a lot of time in the mission office in Long Island? since you were STL.
Brigitte Terry: not Really? I mean...
Darin Tingey: But you get to see president often with all of your meetings and stuff.
Brigitte Terry: yeah yeah more often than I think like if I wasn't a sister training leader We got to see President. But in the office and stuff, we'd like stop by to say hi to the senior sisters in there. and grab candy and then like go finish go to the other side you know we'd like cross and then go and then go back and So yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did...
Brigitte Terry: But. Not a lot of time about this.
Darin Tingey: How many... so How many senior couples were... We're in the mission. or At least when you finish, maybe.
Brigitte Terry: Okay, so we had... The Nelsons. And the Jardines. But Nelson's finished right after me. And then I think we got...
Brigitte Terry: Two more. After they left, And then we had two. sisters, two single sisters. but then one of them had to leave early and so we just had one.
Brigitte Terry: So... By the time I left, we had like... two senior couples and one senior sister.
Darin Tingey: It's not very many.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. No. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: They had a lot of responsibility. It was really really hard.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's how. That's how mine was too. Did President have both of his counselors in Kiribati?
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Brigitte Terry: What?
Darin Tingey: Like. Yeah, that means that that means yes.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: So a mission president actually calls two counselors.
Brigitte Terry: visitor
Brigitte Terry: Oh.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I didn't know about it either until I went to Kiribati.
Brigitte Terry: Oh.
Darin Tingey: And then I was like, oh. They're usually local.
Brigitte Terry: for instance
Darin Tingey: they're usually local and so sounds like or or one of the
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: senior couples.
Brigitte Terry: Mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: So it sounds like both of them are in cannabis.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, I think so.
Brigitte Terry: I'm like I don't know what that is.
Darin Tingey: m
Brigitte Terry: I'm sorry. oh thank you
Darin Tingey: Yeah. That's cool that you got to go back to... to back and serve in two areas that you'd previously served.
Brigitte Terry: and
Darin Tingey: I always wanted to go back to my very first area in eBuy.
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: uh just to be like you know like hey guys like i can speak marshallese now like you like exactly like what you did like i see marshallese now like this is great uh
Brigitte Terry: Yeah i yeah yeah.
Darin Tingey: The closest thing I got to that was flying back from Lye. I stopped on Quodge. at a layover on quaj and so i got to see some people at the dock there
Brigitte Terry: oh yeah that's cool
Darin Tingey: But. No, I'm jealous that you got to do that.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: See you.
Darin Tingey: What was a typical P -Day like for you guys on on the mission?
Brigitte Terry: Typical Petey. morning do studies and then if okay before long island because long island has washing and washing machine and a dryer.
Brigitte Terry: But before Long Island, it was just go and do laundry.
Darin Tingey: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Out of laundromat.
Darin Tingey: Or...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah at a laundromat. at a laundromat. And then go usually to K and &K for shopping. and like Oh my gosh, it's like a missionary reunion in there every Monday.
Darin Tingey: Love KNK. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: yeah Like... We had a small mission and you would see each other like... every week because of k and k you like you could schedule it where it's like Oh, I left this thing, and, like, Laura, could you get it to me? Like, could you bring it to K &K on Monday? So, like, we I was just always seeing the missionaries, like.
Brigitte Terry: I feel like by the time I left, I knew practically like all the missionaries there. the only time you like you wouldn't see a missionary is if they went to an outer island so it was like oh my gosh did you hear he got called to like serve on ebay i'm never gonna see him again like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So yeah. Crazy.
Darin Tingey: So you guys didn't do... So that's super different. For me, because. On Majira P -Day, we always all got together. The whole...
Brigitte Terry: Oh, really?
Darin Tingey: Mission on Madro, yeah. Yeah, it was always like we're doing.
Brigitte Terry: Oh.
Darin Tingey: uh p -day and dell up or we're doing p -day and laura or we're doing p -day in Rita, like we would just choose a spot.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And everyone like comes into town, does their shopping and then like goes and plays volleyball or whatever. in these different places so there's a whole mission did you guys have to do zones or districts
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah. Whoa. we would do We were supposed to do districts.
Darin Tingey: That's crazy. Let me just say that's crazy.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, just districts.
Darin Tingey: There's not.
Brigitte Terry: who
Darin Tingey: Like, like Madro's not that big. And so I don't know.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like how you just do districts. That's crazy.
Brigitte Terry: But yeah, every now and again, we'd have a zone P day. But I actually think they're getting rid of those. They got rid of them. when I left. So...
Darin Tingey: to just do district P days.
Brigitte Terry: Just do district P days.
Darin Tingey: Boo! That's so lame.
Brigitte Terry: true o
Darin Tingey: The island and is tiny.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Like the whole West Zone needs to come into Delop anyway.
Brigitte Terry: I know.
Darin Tingey: to go to K and K.
Brigitte Terry: I know.
Darin Tingey: And so it's like, Why don't you just have everyone meet at the across the street at that park right there and people can grocery shop. and you know, grab some.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: some roles some ham and cheese rolls from K &K and bring it over to the park and play you know some games.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Brigitte Terry: Sounds like you have a plan.
Darin Tingey: I mean, that's what we did. And I'm just shocked hearing the missionaries now. It's like, yeah, we just like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: basically do our laundry and that's it, you know, and we're with our district and I'm like, that sucks.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, we we would meet up with our But... I don't know, I guess I just got used to being a - a district only thing? but Because I think it got...
Brigitte Terry: like taken to where you could only meet with your district. my first transfer I got there, so. I just always knew it as like you just hang out with your district. So.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, that's weird.
Brigitte Terry: But, I mean, we would go fishing and stuff or just play volleyball. but
Darin Tingey: Cool.
Brigitte Terry: I think it was just for Christmas. We would we were like the whole mission. Well, honestly. Or... side of the mission just fills up like the middle row of pews, so I don't even know what the big deal is.
Darin Tingey: I know. that's That's exactly what I'm saying.
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: It's like, it's not that many missionaries. And especially if you're a sister, like. maybe Maybe that's changed now because there's so many sisters, but some districts only would have...
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: one set of sister missionaries.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: And so if you're with the district.
Brigitte Terry: That's how it was, yeah.
Darin Tingey: And it's just you. And. And. Not that you can't hang out with the elders, but what I'm saying is like.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: Sisters like to also meet me up with other sisters.
Brigitte Terry: other sisters.
Darin Tingey: Right. And so having it be just your district is crazy, especially because
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Some like the island is tiny. Like you're right next to each other all the time.
Brigitte Terry: shin shi
Darin Tingey: I'm very passionate about this obviously.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Very passionate.
Darin Tingey: Uh... But it's just like, again, like dumb little rules that I'm like, this makes no sense. You should just let everyone like get together and like.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: build friendships and And just have a good time. Like missionaries are so like missions. You're supposed to work hard, but you're supposed to have a lot of fun.
Brigitte Terry: yeah
Darin Tingey: If it's not fun, then that sucks. It's a terrible time.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. I think they were like, is this fulfilling our missionary purpose? I'm like, it's P -Day.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: What are you talking about?
Darin Tingey: like Come on. We can get to be real people for one day a week.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, what the heck? I don't just want to say hi in K and &K.
Darin Tingey: No, totally. like Say hi. How was your week? Tell me something like cool you guys have been doing.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: You know, just like get to know the other missionaries. and build friendships like that, like. lifelong lifelong friendships i went to tonga in june and i got to meet up with six Tongan sisters that I served with.
Darin Tingey: And I would have never got to know them if we just did district P days, you know, we did like all mission P days.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mhm.
Darin Tingey: Anyway. You tell your... Tell the males that they need to change that up.
Brigitte Terry: Yep.
Darin Tingey: now that Now that you're not in the mission, you know you can tell them.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah. I'll put a word in for you.
Darin Tingey: Uh... That's funny. What about... Emailing you guys email on your phone, obviously.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: again things are so different but do you And you FaceTime? Do you FaceTime? every ep day
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. i' face on Well, actually, my I don't know. My parents... don't really do facetime so i would just call my parents but
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, but I tried to send an email. every other week I was really bad at emails like at well when I got called
Darin Tingey: Wow.
Brigitte Terry: I just got so busy that I never had time for anything. So I just like.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Like stopped writing emails for a while. long long time
Darin Tingey: Did they have... A certain like. amount of time you can call your family each week. Or is it like you can call all day P -Day if you wanted to?
Brigitte Terry: Alright. I think it's just like within the... the like. You know, the time of P -Day. That's when you're supposed to be able to call them.
Darin Tingey: So But, but...
Brigitte Terry: hmm
Darin Tingey: could you in theory just sit on your phone all day and talk to your family
Brigitte Terry: I guess so.
Darin Tingey: Or was there like a mission rule of like, you can call him for an hour?
Brigitte Terry: No, I don't think it was like a mission -wide rule. I think if someone was just sitting on their phone all day, you'd be like...
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Okay, but it's not like they're breaking the rules or anything.
Darin Tingey: Interesting, okay.
Brigitte Terry: but Yeah. Was there like something different?
Darin Tingey: I was just curious. Oh, we didn't have phones. we didn't
Brigitte Terry: Oh.
Darin Tingey: We didn't, like that wasn't a thing.
Brigitte Terry: Did you guys send letters?
Darin Tingey: You couldn't call. On Outer Islands, I sent letters.
Brigitte Terry: Wow.
Darin Tingey: Isn't that crazy? Madra, we could email, but we went to CMI. College of Marshall Islands and we went up to their library and we could email from their library.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: That was the only place you could do it.
Brigitte Terry: That was crazy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, so we didn't we didn't have smartphones. We had like little Nokia phones.
Brigitte Terry: Because when did when did you serve?
Darin Tingey: That works. 2016 to 2018.
Brigitte Terry: wow
Darin Tingey: So 10 years ago.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Wow. That's 10 years ago? Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I actually went into the MTC September 7th, 2016. So 10 years ago.
Brigitte Terry: Oh, congratulations.
Darin Tingey: I'm getting old. i It's actually sad. I totally forgot that I like i was going to like... I'm going to text my... my my intake be like yo he went in 10 years ago and i totally forgot to do that but
Darin Tingey: yeah it's just it's just so different that's why i always ask questions it's like so
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Missions change so much.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm.
Darin Tingey: All right. I want to ask you some questions just about.
Darin Tingey: Like... what to bring like what you thought was great to bring because there's a lot of sisters going out right now so anything
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. mm -hmm
Darin Tingey: Uh... in particular, that you're glad that you brought? or But on the other flip side, you brought too much of like my mom sent me with like a ton of.
Darin Tingey: Like deodorant because she thought I couldn't get deodorant
Brigitte Terry: you know
Darin Tingey: on madro and i'm like no you can there's this there's stores like outer islands you can't get this stuff but like you're
Brigitte Terry: mm -hmm fifty
Darin Tingey: you're always going to be on Madro first, right?
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: So i so people like send stuff. people with like a ton of stuff and they ended up just. Not needing it.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah. I totally agree. I think Majiro actually has like so much stuff. Like I said, it's like
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: It really, like... it doesn't feel like there's a lot that's missing or not there. I mean... I definitely overpacked, because...
Brigitte Terry: Again, I thought I was going to die. So, you know, I had my toothbrushes, my toothpaste, like all that stuff.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: For 18 months worth?
Darin Tingey: That's crazy.
Brigitte Terry: For 18 months and then, you know. Didn't even need them.
Darin Tingey: yeah
Brigitte Terry: Like... If anybody forgot their toothbrush on exchange, I'd be like, I have toothbrushes for you. And I'd pull out my bag.
Darin Tingey: No way, that's so funny.
Brigitte Terry: So, hey, extra toothbrushes, like, do come in handy, but... I would say like things that I'm glad I brought. These, like... okay i know everybody's on like the jesus sandals okay but i can't do it
Darin Tingey: Yep.
Brigitte Terry: I can't.
Darin Tingey: Whaaat?
Brigitte Terry: They're just like too thin. I feel the rocks beneath my feet. and like when it rains like i'm just stepping all up in the mud even if it's just like this much
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Like a little bit. And so I brought these shoes that were Keens with like an elastic. No. i don't know it was like a strap that was Kind of elastic.
Brigitte Terry: and they were so nice because like i got a technique where i could take them off without
Darin Tingey: have
Brigitte Terry: you know, bending down and like actually take.
Darin Tingey: Bend down, yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Because that's what I hated about Tevas. I'm like, I'm sorry. I can't be doing the Velcro all the time.
Darin Tingey: No.
Brigitte Terry: That is so funny. But the Keens were so good because I could also like just run if I wanted to and not like, fear that they were gonna fall off my feet. But, yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Those were.
Darin Tingey: So you liked having a strap.
Brigitte Terry: came
Darin Tingey: but He liked having a strap.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But it was easy that you could.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Take them off.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Easily. and
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, or you could also like wear them as sandals and just like
Darin Tingey: Put them on easy.
Brigitte Terry: have your heel on the strap as well.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: so
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: That's my favorite thing I brought.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Other things, honestly... That's all I needed.
Darin Tingey: What about...
Brigitte Terry: They've got everything. Thanks.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, no, seriously, they really do.
Brigitte Terry: Mm -hmm.
Darin Tingey: What about... Any medications? that Maybe are harder to get again. I don't think there's anything that It's hard to get.
Brigitte Terry: Not really, because, yeah, we had a lot of stuff. i mean Boils are pretty... They get pretty bad. I never got a boil, but... If you could find any medication for like...
Brigitte Terry: boils that you could bring I know my mom had me like loaded with that stuff
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: and i like never use it because i never got a boil but If you could get your hands on some of that. That's all about our multivitamin. Just stuff like that.
Brigitte Terry: Because there's not, you know. Sometimes there's not gonna be a lot of fruit on the island, but... Yeah.
Darin Tingey: A lot of rising bows. of
Brigitte Terry: Raiding Bound.
Darin Tingey: Uh, Horizon chicken.
Brigitte Terry: I don't know
Darin Tingey: Half cook half -cooked chicken. Uh...
Brigitte Terry: oh yep this
Darin Tingey: Okay, yeah, I agree. there's like You can get basically anything on the island.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: What about...
Brigitte Terry: You didn't. so much.
Darin Tingey: I guess the new garments came out while you were on your mission.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Read.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Did you're able to get some in the marsh islands or
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, actually, so they have a we have a... pretty good distribution center but Like... I know that the sisters they would ask like the senior sisters to like go to the distribution center and get garments for them.
Brigitte Terry: And so... there was like max like you could get two of the tops like max
Darin Tingey: Interesting.
Brigitte Terry: I think. And so they would like send them and they'd like go and get two Macs. And I remember one of the sisters went home and she like had a full. Like... set of all the new garments and she didn't need the rest of them.
Brigitte Terry: so
Darin Tingey: That's awesome.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. that's We also have garments.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, the I mean, the new garments. I guess I guess. As a missionary, are you still allowed to like, was there any rules against like?
Darin Tingey: sleeveless uh shirts or did you guys as missionaries have a different dress code
Brigitte Terry: m
Brigitte Terry: I don't know anymore because when I went out Like they didn't have the sleeveless
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: And so when I got my packet, it just like had the instructions of like. Just like. you know normal missionary attire where it has like the sleeve and stuff.
Darin Tingey: Right.
Brigitte Terry: I don't know. I never wore anything that was sleeveless, so... Maybe I'm not the best person.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I wonder if that's that change if that changes now, which would be cool.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, maybe.
Darin Tingey: That'd be cool.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: That would be nice. like Not as...
Darin Tingey: i mean it's so hot and humid yeah it's so hot and humid i i would imagine that like the
Brigitte Terry: It's hot there, yeah. so much
Darin Tingey: What's it called the slip?
Brigitte Terry: Mm -hmm.
Darin Tingey: for like skirts would be great.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah yeah yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Just because like humidity with tight garments is never fun.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. I don't know. Yeah, I i actually really... I... Don't mind hot weather that much. Like...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So it wasn't like that bad for me just because I always lived in hot places. Like I always lived in really hot places. And... Like... So I don't know, it wasn't ever really like a big issue for me.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Like with the normal garments or anything like that. But I don't know, maybe. I just didn't know the difference, so. but I'm sure it would be a not a lot nicer.
Brigitte Terry: Now,
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Shifting gears a little bit, did you... Were you there when the... Net -a -gel ad. I think that's how you say it. Burn down.
Darin Tingey: That building burned.
Brigitte Terry: in ebay
Darin Tingey: the government building.
Brigitte Terry: Oh wait, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Darin Tingey: well
Brigitte Terry: Oh.
Darin Tingey: There was two buildings. Yeah, the government building and then the hotel burned down in Ibai.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh. Like, I don't know what was wrong with Marshall Adams when I was there. Like, three things burned down. But, like... I wasn't in Delop when the... that building burned down, but... I was in the apartment next door i'm pretty sure and The sisters were like...
Brigitte Terry: walking by the area. And they heard, I think it was the AC. but like they heard something really loud and they were like, that sounds like it's going to explode.
Brigitte Terry: like something coming from the building.
Darin Tingey: No way
Brigitte Terry: And then yeah, lo and behold, it exploded.
Darin Tingey: That's so crazy
Brigitte Terry: And then... In Uluga, there was like a brand new laundromat. that like was so nice so bougie like it had a neon sign and everything it freaking exploded like because i don't know what happened but
Darin Tingey: Oh my gosh.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, it exploded. and that they were so many cars on the road when we were trying to get back from exchange but yeah and then oh my gosh yeah
Darin Tingey: Did anyone die?
Brigitte Terry: I don't think so. I think I would have heard if someone one died.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. And then Hotel E -Buy burned.
Brigitte Terry: Bye.
Darin Tingey: That was crazy.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh, yeah. It was crazy.
Brigitte Terry: I'd like go on people's Google photos and they'd be like, oh my gosh. And like recording a video of like all the.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: spoken It's just crazy.
Darin Tingey: Well, I stayed there. When I went back, I stayed at Hotel Ibai.
Brigitte Terry: Good. Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: Which is crazy. Yeah. And I want to go back again. and like in it I'm trying to go back again, maybe like February. But like I don't know where I'm going to stay on eBuy.
Brigitte Terry: oh
Darin Tingey: once Someone's floor, I guess.
Brigitte Terry: somewhere else.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: Well, the cool thing about that actually...
Darin Tingey: Did you get to... Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Not that that's cool, that's actually horrible, but... in the newspaper they printed Like... Because the church donated a lot of money. To hope.
Darin Tingey: Oh cool.
Brigitte Terry: you know, for compensation and stuff come But anyway. They had like printed a photo of the burn. uh the burn site and you know They had said like thank you to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter -day Saints for like their generous donations and stuff. so yeah i mean it's cool to see the way the church is like ready to step in and you know help even if it's just like this little island
Darin Tingey: Very cool.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: So I... Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And the church might can make a massive impact.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: In the marsh islands. just because it's you know any funding goes a long way
Brigitte Terry: 100%.
Brigitte Terry: Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Did you get to experience any cultural things? that that were pretty cool. I mean I guess Christmas is always a fun cultural thing.
Brigitte Terry: Christmas, yeah.
Darin Tingey: As you do B.
Brigitte Terry: beep I did beat They actually weren't going to let us do beat it first.
Darin Tingey: Peace.
Brigitte Terry: and
Darin Tingey: What?
Brigitte Terry: The missionary's like... started rioting. Maybe I was one of them, but...
Darin Tingey: Good. Good for you.
Brigitte Terry: we were like What do you mean? we don't get to be and I And when they told us that in like the meeting, I was like, What do you mean? every Everyone else here has B.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: And you're telling me the one Christmas I'm here, I can't beat? like what are you talking and so they changed it we got to be but
Darin Tingey: So mission president wasn't going to let you do it?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, wasn't going to let it be. But then...
Darin Tingey: That's crazy.
Brigitte Terry: But then... that weekend was absolutely insane because we had like the combined zone conference And then we had B, and then... one other thing it was just like so packed that that weekend was crazy Yeah.
Darin Tingey: I'm so glad they let you to do that because that'd be so sad if you guys didn't get to beat.
Brigitte Terry: Sorry.
Darin Tingey: Beats so fun.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, that is like... The Marshallese experience, my gosh.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Repeat. Just being in that room is crazy.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, beat. So fun.
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: It's so unique, but like...
Brigitte Terry: So fun.
Darin Tingey: Insanely fun.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Uh,
Brigitte Terry: I have so many things for that
Darin Tingey: You missed a... Mike Cabua, heroes level up, Mike Cabua. Just passing.
Brigitte Terry: in
Darin Tingey: you say Did you see that?
Brigitte Terry: I was there yeah. it That was...
Darin Tingey: Oh, you were there when he died.
Brigitte Terry: I was there when he died. In Long Island, too. So, like... We would be like driving. Mm -hmm Like... all over the place and everybody would have flags out on their palm trees and stuff like all decorated for when his like casket went by and stuff that was
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: That was a crazy time. Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, I was there. I was on eBay when... uh, and he Roy's passed away. That was like, a big funeral. And then the next thing was the Kairos, which is.
Darin Tingey: the anointing of a new
Brigitte Terry: Whoa.
Darin Tingey: Uh, It always needs chief.
Brigitte Terry: that's cool
Darin Tingey: That was really cool. So I can imagine they're doing something with Mike Kabua. Interesting about Mike Kabua, he's not married, he doesn't have any kids. So I think it passes down to like his nephew or something like that.
Brigitte Terry: a
Brigitte Terry: Oh what the heck?
Darin Tingey: Yeah. Kind of crazy. We'll call it. This was, I mean, you had an awesome mission. three last questions that I want to hear about.
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: So first is what was your favorite food? in the marsh islands
Brigitte Terry: and he I really like... continue Which is like the Roasted May. where's the breadfruit
Darin Tingey: Yeah, make one sin. Yeah. i' had
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Long time.
Brigitte Terry: I could just eat that all day. honestly like
Darin Tingey: You dip it in oil?
Brigitte Terry: Oil.
Darin Tingey: Yes! Yes!
Brigitte Terry: We did not do that. Did you?
Darin Tingey: Do you just eat it?
Brigitte Terry: Wait. What?
Darin Tingey: So make one is the one they burn it on the outside right and then they scrape it off
Brigitte Terry: Yeah yeah yeah. and they like scrape it off
Darin Tingey: but Which is like, you're like, I can eat that, right? you know like
Brigitte Terry: yeah You sure about that?
Darin Tingey: Hmm. They just like put the May, the breadfruit like in the fire.
Brigitte Terry: In the fire, yeah.
Darin Tingey: And then they scrape off the... All the black.
Brigitte Terry: The black.
Darin Tingey: And.
Brigitte Terry: And then they put it back in and then they scrape it out.
Darin Tingey: And then you eat it. Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Takes forever.
Darin Tingey: so At least the way I was taught to eat it is they would like legit like. I think it was just cooking oil and salt. And like you dip it in that and then eat it.
Brigitte Terry: I think that was killing too many people. I think they stopped doing that.
Darin Tingey: I probably was. It probably was causing way too much.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. They were just eating with ketchup, man. Or just plain.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: I always ate it plain. yeah my comps always loved it with corned beef I just like...
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I love me.
Darin Tingey: That's...
Brigitte Terry: It was like my favorite thing.
Darin Tingey: What about puerto?
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh.
Darin Tingey: You don't like Vito?
Brigitte Terry: I don't like Fuyuro.
Darin Tingey: Buitro's good. I actually love Buitro.
Brigitte Terry: Really? puerro
Darin Tingey: buta You gotta to eat it with wine -y.
Brigitte Terry: Okay.
Darin Tingey: Super good if you know the whiny.
Brigitte Terry: Oh, Pilau Awaini though, I love Pilau Awaini.
Darin Tingey: that oh There's so many good... foods that I'm missing out on I forget about those
Brigitte Terry: I'm gonna make her wash it out.
Darin Tingey: Uh...
Brigitte Terry: I gotta get a recipe for that.
Darin Tingey: i don't I don't think I've ever heard anyone say that Mae Kwan Jin was their favorite food.
Brigitte Terry: It's my favorite.
Darin Tingey: So that is unique. I love that.
Brigitte Terry: Hmm. Well, I'm not a complicated person.
Darin Tingey: Heh heh. Ha ha. What about, okay, the second question is.
Brigitte Terry: Hmm.
Darin Tingey: What was your favorite area?
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh. It really is a tie.
Darin Tingey: And why?
Brigitte Terry: between Uruguay and Long Island. Uluga just because I was there for so long. And... you know, I... Just... had so many wonderful teaching friends and then Long Island, I just.
Brigitte Terry: I love that word to death. like Some of like the members there I just loved Mama Onion, like the Onion family.
Darin Tingey: Oh yeah.
Brigitte Terry: What? I used to just go over and you know spend time with mama onion and do amimono with her That was just like... The best. time ever and she still writes me and will like wish me happy birthday and things like that. I love her.
Darin Tingey: She... remind me Do you remember her first name?
Brigitte Terry: next
Brigitte Terry: Juliana.
Darin Tingey: Juliana. I'm trying to remember her face.
Brigitte Terry: She's married to Cheetah Onion.
Darin Tingey: Is he glasses?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, yeah
Darin Tingey: They live on the... Lickside.
Brigitte Terry: Mhm. She's got like the garden and...
Darin Tingey: Yeah. So he used he was in the state presidency when I was.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: there And... She made me. a massive, like, Iroys Maramar.
Brigitte Terry: Wow.
Darin Tingey: when I left.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And she got me a Jackie from.
Brigitte Terry: who
Darin Tingey: Was it Namo or where, were where, what outer Island to show is go to. I forget if it was Namo or...
Brigitte Terry: eling one
Darin Tingey: Namrik, maybe. I can't remember. It's one of those.
Brigitte Terry: Oh, it might be in America.
Darin Tingey: namaic And she brought me back one and I was like, yeah.
Brigitte Terry: Oh my gosh, that is sick.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, she's awesome.
Brigitte Terry: All right, yeah.
Darin Tingey: you know their daughter Their daughter is married to, he was a former elder American. They live in Virginia now.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, and... There... like niece is serving there right now.
Darin Tingey: No way, that's so cool.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah. So cool. But...
Darin Tingey: so Which one though?
Brigitte Terry: Yeah, literally.
Darin Tingey: If you had to choose one, you have to choose one of them.
Brigitte Terry: Oh. Probably Long Island.
Darin Tingey: Okay.
Brigitte Terry: I love Long Island.
Darin Tingey: Yeah, Long Island's great.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: It was my favorite area on Maduro. For sure.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Mm hmm.
Darin Tingey: Uh, And then last question is, what was your favorite thing about the Marshall Islands?
Brigitte Terry: the people. I think.
Darin Tingey: Yep.
Brigitte Terry: particularly the mamas. I feel like I just... loved the mama so much. I feel like they're underappreciated. People always talk about the boo -boos and stuff, but the mamas, like...
Darin Tingey: Hmm.
Brigitte Terry: they Sometimes they're hard to crack. They can be like... way more standoffish but once you crack them it's like they will love you forever So I have some really close bonds with a lot of the mamas that.
Darin Tingey: Yeah.
Brigitte Terry: I taught with or were members. I just love them, you know.
Darin Tingey: Yeah. That's cool. It is always the people. That is the answer. which
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: And that.
Brigitte Terry: Always, always.
Darin Tingey: They're just amazing. They're amazing. They're... they're Just the nicest people. You'll have a meat date. Take care of you. They'll feed you before they eat.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: you know feed themselves which is uh Just incredible. Like a true. True, like ministering. to other people.
Brigitte Terry: Oh yeah.
Darin Tingey: especially towards the missionaries.
Brigitte Terry: They're so amazing.
Darin Tingey: Well, Bridget? Thanks for taking in time away from your studies to be on the podcast.
Brigitte Terry: Nice. business
Darin Tingey: It was super fun to. to hear your story and just like how the mission is right now. Uh...
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: You know, it's... In 10 years like me, you'll be like, wow, that so much has changed in the Marshall Islands.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: But also at the same time, nothing has changed.
Darin Tingey: It's like that's how it feels. so
Brigitte Terry: Yeah.
Darin Tingey: Well, thanks for coming on. And it was another great episode of the islands podcast.
Brigitte Terry: Yeah. Yeah, thank you so much for having me.
