F. Pratley's Baptism and Receiving the Holy Spirit

“A whole year passed before I became a member of the Church. Even on the morning of the day of my baptism I did not know that I would become a member of the Church that day. A baptismal service was to be held, and I had decided to attend the ceremony. I prayed to the Lord that morning that if it were His will that I should be baptized, that I might be led to obey the ordinance, and if not, that I would take it as an evidence from Him that the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints was not recognized by Him as His Church. I had been at the baths in London but a short time when I requested Elder Jarvis to baptize me, feeling confident that the Lord was leading me. I had to borrow clothes in which to be baptized, as I had not brought any with me, not knowing that I would be baptized. After baptism I received the gift of the Holy Spirit, and I found the words of the Savior to be true when He said that the Spirit would be in a person like a well of water springing up unto eternal life.”

— F. Pratley, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 69, No. 40