[1] When he was fifteen years old, he and his parents joined the LDS Church while they were living in Río Bravo, Tamaulipas.

[1] He later served in various positions related to running welfare and other church programs at the area level.

[1] In 1999, as Welfare Services Area manager he was involved in distributing food to flood victims.

Due to his connection to Tilapan, Tenorio was later, while serving in the church as a regional representative, involved with David A. Palmer and Robert E. Fisher in a project organized by John L. Sorenson to investigate the potential boundaries of the Book of Mormon land of Bountiful in this general region of Mexico.

[5] In April 2007, Tenorio became a member of the First Quorum of the Seventy and served as a counselor in the Mexico Area Presidency from 2007 to 2012.

They were married in December 1973 in Colonia Dublán and were sealed in the Mesa Arizona Temple in January 1974.