Elder Pedro X. Larreal

In Elder Pedro X. Larreal’s fourth month as a full-time missionary, President Gordon B. Hinckley (1910–2008) visited the Venezuela Caracas Mission.

Elder Larreal recalled, “He extended an amazing invitation to us about consecration: ‘If you are focused 100 percent, I promise your future family will receive blessings.’”

Afterward, Elder Larreal wrote a letter to break up with his girlfriend back home. “I needed to put everything on the altar because I needed to be more focused.”

Looking back, he recognizes many blessings—beneficial education, successful employment—sprouting from trust in that apostolic promise.

“When we follow the direction of a prophet, seer, and revelator, we will get blessings in our life,” he said. “I promise.”

Pedro Xavier Larreal Noguera was born on July 6, 1976, in Valencia, Venezuela, to Duilio Antonio Larreal Romero and Haydee Maria Noguera De Larreal. He married Sariah Alvarez Campos in the Caracas Venezuela Temple on August 25, 2001. They are the parents of three children.

Elder Larreal earned a bachelor’s degree in management from Simón Rodríguez University, a master’s degree in science in education from Santa Maria University, and a master of business administration from Brigham Young University. He worked as a Seminaries and Institutes of Religion coordinator and worked for Nature’s Sunshine Products Inc. as general manager and regional director of Mexico, Central America, and the Dominican Republic.

Before being called as a General Authority, Elder Larreal was serving as president of the Texas McAllen Mission. He has served as an Area Seventy in two areas, stake president, stake presidency counselor, high councilor, stake executive secretary, and bishop.