Calling Africa

Cody and I called the continent of Africa for the first time the other day. Our friends Chad and Amy Carter are there working as missionaries in Burkina Faso. We had wanted to call for a while, but finally made up our minds to figure out the best way to call (an electronic phone card from noblecom.com) and the best time to call (they are only 5 hours ahead of central time zone). There was a slight delay on the line, but overall the quality was amazing. I guess I'm a simple minded person, but I can't begin to comprehend how my voice can travel through a wire all the way to Africa in split seconds. Does that seem strange to anyone else? I mean, how did anyone (Alexander Graham Bell to be exact) ever come up with the idea of a voice traveling through wire? How is this possible? There are a lot of daily activities that blow my mind. The internet, video conferenceing, space travel, and air travel just barely scrape the top of my wonderment. Sometimes I try to imagine what my grandparents must think of all these things, if even I am so mind-boggled by them. Then I think about the crazy ideas that will soon become reality and also the yet unimagined concepts that will be reality 50 years from now. I can't believe humans are smart enough to come up with these ideas and develop incredible working products. Not that I doubt the human race...but I know I personally could never come up with any of those ideas, so it's hard for me to imagine the minds that DO come up with them.