To San Francisco and back in one day.

The trip to San Francisco did happen.  A few of Elder Lyman's words about the experience:

  "Yesterday was really crazy.  I flew to San Francisco and back. I had to wake up at 4 so the whole day is kind of a blur.  We got up, went to the travel office at 5, then drove to the airport, flew out at 8:30, flew to SF and took a shuttle to the French Consulate.  We went in and just kinda sat for a long time, then got called up one by one and gave them our visa applications and then we had to sit for quite a bit longer before they called us up to get our visas. After we got them we called our driver again who took us back to SF airport.  At the airport we ran into an elder on his way home from the Philippines, 2 elders and a sister also from the Philippines and then one Elder who was on his way home form Thailand to get surgery on his shoulder, after serving just 7 months. It was pretty cool to be a missionary out in the real world, not that I did any missionarying."