Examining the CIA World Factbook 2008 estimates we find that in the United Kingdom life expectancy at birth is 78.7 years. For the U.S. the number is 78.06 years. Less than eight months difference.
Archives for July 2009
Missionary Dan Email #25 from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
July 27, 2009 by 2 Comments
This week was quite an adventure. There was a huge rainstorm on Tuesday that flooded all the streets etc. We were teaching a lesson and the rain on the roof was so loud that we had to stop teaching for about 30 minutes.
Missionary Dan Email #24 from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
July 20, 2009 by 2 Comments
This week I got to build my first ger. That was fun to see how it was done and stuff. It is way cool to see how they put their houses together and how they can move the entire thing in about 3 to 4 hours.
Missionary Dan Email #23 from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
July 13, 2009 by 4 Comments
It was Naadam holiday in Mongolia and in fact today it still is. We went to the opening ceremonies on Saturday and that was a good experience. They had lots of people in Mongolian traditional clothing doing dances etc. Then they had a bunch of horses come out and do a show. It was exciting and fun to watch.
Missionary Dan Email #22 from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
July 7, 2009 by 8 Comments
Looks like the parade was cool — we had our own little one at the American embassy. We went there on the fourth of July and had a party.
Kaysville Independence Day Parade
July 5, 2009 by Leave a Comment
Yesterday we watched the Kaysville / Fruit Heights Independence Day Parade. The weather was perfect, so cool. There were ominous dark clouds overhead but they didn’t rain on our parade. Just before the parade started four F-16s from Hill Air Force Base flew low overhead to loud applause from the large crowd.
Webcam Crawling
July 3, 2009 by 3 Comments
Today we saw Bryson crawling for the first time over the webcam. That was a marvelous sight. Jill heavily praised Bryson, which brings a smile to his face. This elicits more praise from Jill which brings forth another smile from Bryson. I rather think this would continue all day long if not for Sarah saying, “OK, time to go.”
