G. Davies and His Family Receive Tongues, Interpretation, and Healing Within Six Weeks of Obeying the Gospel (1843)

“Five years last February I heard the servant of God preaching the Everlasting Gospel, to which he testified that signs should follow us (our family) if we would obey the Gospel of Christ; so accordingly we obeyed, and in about six weeks we received the gifts of the spirit, such as speaking in tongues, interpretation of tongues, and healing the sick, &c., &c., we being the first in South Wales, who had not the testimony of others to rely on but the bare testimony of the servant of God (which was enough), so, in this way, we proved him to be telling us the truth, and which, of course, gave no room to doubt his future sayings. Since that time we have had many manifestations of the power of God, and have been enabled to rejoice in the truth, and to bear testimony to our neighbours, many of whom have been brought to a knowledge of the truth through our instrumentality, and are now rejoicing with us in the same hope. We have had many trials and persecutions to encounter, but the Lord has been our support, and has delivered us from the hands of our enemies, and has blessed us with the light of his countenance, and the gifts of his spirit, which are more precious than gold or silver. We are still striving to live according to the commandments of God, and to prepare ourselves for the coming of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, and we pray that we may be enabled to endure to the end, and to be saved in his kingdom.”

— G. Davies, The Latter-day Saints' Millennial Star, Vol. 10, No. 12