Biographical information from the Church website

Church Service

Elder Pedro X. Larreal was sustained as a General Authority Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at the April 2025 general conference. At the time of his call, he had been serving as the president of the Texas McAllen Mission.

Elder Larreal has served in a number of Church callings, including full-time missionary in the Venezuela Caracas Mission, bishop, high councilor, stake president, and Area Seventy.

Professional Life

Elder Larreal received a bachelor’s degree in management from Simón Rodríguez University in 2005. He went on to receive two master’s degrees, one in 2008 in education science from Santa Maria University and another in business management in 2021 from Brigham Young University’s Marriott School of Business. From 1998 to 2008, he worked for the Church as a Seminaries and Institutes coordinator. Since 2009, he has worked for Nature Sunshine Products Inc. as general manager and then as director of Latin America from 2017 to 2023.

Personal Life

Pedro Xavier Larreal Noguera was born in Valencia, Venezuela, on July 6, 1976. He married Sariah Alvarez Campos in 2001. They are the parents of three children.

Brief talk summary

In “I Feel My Savior’s Love,” Elder Larreal teaches that one of the most powerful ways to feel the Saviour’s personal love is through reverent participation in the sacrament. He emphasises that the sacrament is not merely a weekly ordinance but a sacred opportunity to remember Jesus Christ’s Atonement, and receive the promised companionship of the Holy Ghost.

Key quotes

‘We can renew that influence of the Holy Ghost each week by personally preparing to partake of the sacrament.’ (Paragraph 3)

‘As we partake of this ordinance with a broken heart, the Lord promises us the blessing of having the companionship and constant guidance of the Holy Ghost.’ (Paragraph 6)

’The sacrament represents the Atonement of Jesus Christ. During that sacred moment, when we give our full attention to Him and focus on His atoning sacrifice, how can we not feel His great love for us?’ (Paragraph 7)

‘The ordinance of the sacrament makes sacrament meeting the most sacred and important meeting in the Church.’ (Paragraph 13)

‘During the sacrament, we should strive to remove every worldly thought from our minds. This is time to be prayerful and reverent, not a time for reading secular books or magazines, nor is it a time for checking our cell phones. This sacred time is to feel His love for us and remember Him, to know that we are never alone and that His Spirit will be with us to help us during trials and challenges.’ (Paragraph 13)

‘I know that Jesus Christ lives and He knows us. His arms are always outstretched and ready to help us. He loves us beyond what we can comprehend.’ (Paragraph 17)

Questions to discuss or ponder

Why is the guidance and influence of the Holy Ghost so important? (Paragraphs 2, 15, and 16)

What does it mean to partake of the sacrament with a broken heart and a contrite spirit? (Paragraphs 5 and 6)

Why do you think Elder Larreal emphasised the repeated use of the word “you” in the Saviour’s teachings about the sacrament? (Paragraphs 11 and 12)

What distractions can divert our focus from the Saviour during the sacrament? (Paragraph 13)

How can we elevate our spiritual preparation and reverence for the sacrament? (Paragraph 16)

What will you take away from Elder Larreal’s talk?

Invitations and application

‘…I want to invite you, with all my strength and with all my love, to leave today determined to elevate your spiritual preparation and reverence as you partake of the sacrament. It is vital.’ (Paragraph 16)

Additional thoughts

‘To always have the Spirit with us is to have the guidance and direction of the Holy Ghost in our daily lives. We can, for instance, be warned by the Spirit to resist the temptation to do evil.

For that reason alone, it is easy to see why the Lord’s servants have tried to increase our desire to worship God in our sacrament meetings. If we partake of the sacrament in faith, the Holy Ghost will then be able to protect us and those we love from the temptations that come with increasing intensity and frequency.

The companionship of the Holy Ghost makes what is good more attractive and temptation less compelling. That alone should be enough to make us determined to qualify for the Spirit to be with us always.’ (Henry B Eyring, General Conference, October 2015)

‘Some people have told me that they’ve heard sacrament prayers so often that they don’t even hear them when the sacrament is blessed. Perhaps this is because they don’t understand what is being said. Perhaps you might want to pull your scriptures at the proper time and study these prayers. They contain profound and significant information about our promises to the Lord, and his promises to us.’ (W Mack Lawrence, General Conference, April 1991)

You can watch Elder Larreal’s talk here.

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