The Mormon Evangelist’s Wife

Finishing up with back-to-school night at Ridgeview Middle School, a middle-aged woman in a skirt with a name tag walked down the hall toward me and past me. All the teachers’ name tags were white with black lettering, but this one was black with white lettering. When a bishop or stake president shows up at his eighth-graders’ school, his title is Mister, and his wife’s is Mrs. The call of a mission president and his wife is full-time, though, and even when attending her children’s needs, she is Sister to all she meets, to the saints and especially to the gentiles.