Thank you so very much for the wonderful pictures. I love Mistolar and La Abundancia! My husband and I loved traveling to these beautiful parts of Paraguay. It was always an adventure. It is good to see Pres. Rios playing soccer. I know we would have been lost if he had not always traveled with us!

Thank you for this site. I especially enjoyed the photos and videos. I served as a missionary in Mistolar in 83 and 84. I still remember the flooding that took place during that time, as we made a hasty escape.

I had the great pleasure of working with the brothers and sisters of Mistolar from its beginning, since the historic baptism on December 4, 1980, up until the foundation of Abundancia, sharing in the many blessings and sometimes hard trials of these stoic, humble and devout believers in the living word. So it will be a privilege for me to be hear any news of these brothers and sisters.

Tuve el gran placer de trabajar con los hermanos tanto de Mistolar desde sus inicios, desde el gran acto de bautismo el 4 de diciembre de 1.980, hasta la fundacion de Abundancia, participando de las muchisimas bendiciones y a veces durisimas pruebas de estos estoicos, humildes y devotos creyentes de la palabra viva. Asi es que sera un privilegio para mi estar al tanto de las noticias de estos hermanos.

Thank-you for this website. My son is serving a mission currently for the LDS Church and is in this area. He lives in Filadelfia but talks about Nueland and the Nivacle people all the time. It wonderful for me to see where he is serving and learn of the people he has come to love.

Thank you for this web site. My uncle is President Gerald Bradford Quinn. I happened upon this site while working on my Family History. All of the extended family has heard how much he and his family loved the Paraguay Mission. It was a hard time for them. One of their sons developed leukemia while they were serving. President Quinn was not able to stay there the whole 3 years. He was transferred as mission president in the Texas San Antonio Mission. But, the missionary work and progress in Paraguay was of utmost importance to him. His son, Robroy, has married and has a family he is raising. He was able to overcome his leukemia.

Estimados amigos.....que bueno el articulo e historia de elder Kendell Hellewell, la verdad que me senti tan identificado, y ver esos registros fotograficos de toda la historia de esa gran creciente del rio que hubo, y todo lo que pasaron los hermanos de alli!! Escuche muchas veces de parte de los hermanos de alli todo esto que elder Hellewell menciona........que experiencia maravillosa.....Que bendecidos que fuimos a pesar de las delicadas y dificiles situaciones que vivimos!! Cuan agradecido me siento por ser parte de esa historia, algun dia me pondre a preparar mi historia para enviarla, un abrazo a todos los "chaco chicos" de siempre. Un pacum a todos! Edgardo (Esteemed friends.....what a great article and history by Elder Kendell Hellewell, I was able to relate so well, and to see those photographic records of the whole history and the great flooding of the river that took place, and all that the members went through there!! I heard many times from the members there all that Elder Hellewell mentions........what a marvelous experience.....How blessed we were in spite of the touchy and difficult situations we lived through!! How grateful I am to be part of that history, one day I'll get my history ready to send, an abrazo for all the "chaco chicos" always. Bye all!)