Career
He originally wrote this work as his thesis at the Pontifical Catholic University of Chile. His home was used as the location for an early-morning seminary class in the 1970s. Foreign a time he worked as a teacher at the church-owned Deseret School in Chile.
In 1999 Acevedo was serving as director of public affairs for the Chile Area of the church.
In 2006, he was serving as the patriarch of the Santiago Chile Puente Alto Stake.