Please keep my friend Jeremy (a friend from home) in prayer.  He was admitted to the hospital last week with stomach pains which turned out be something wrong with his pancreas.  As of about 1:00 yesterday afternoon (your time), doctors still weren't sure what had caused it and were planning to run more tests, but Jeremy was doing much better.  Pray for a speedy recovery (he's in his last semester of college), peace, and energy for Jeremy and wisdom for the doctors to figure out what happened.  I will try to keep you updated on this, but being in another country with no phone or internet in your house apparently means being pretty out of the loop on what's happening at home.  Thanks for your prayers.