The Holy Ghost

Last night we went to this guy's house who has been reading the Book of Mormon a lot and has been having some really good questions. He had some concerns about the laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost because he thought he had already received it. He also wanted to know our opinion on why the Book of Mormon was necessary in comparison to just having the Bible. We shared Matt 18:16 (or something like that) that talks about "by the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established" and a bunch of others, and showed him how they support each other like Matt 7:14-15--- 2Ne 31:17 and others. That helped him out. Then to address the Holy Ghost topic we shared Acts 8 and explain that it has to be by the laying on of hands. We can feel that Holy Ghost prompts us or bears witness of truth before we have the gift but it is not constantly. Then I shared some other things. I shared that Christ would not give the commandment to be baptized of water and of fire (The Holy Ghost) if we already had it. But he gave the commandment because it was something we had to willfully "DO". It wouldn't just happen to us. That made a lot of sense to him. Also I compared the constant companionship of the Holy Ghost (that fire inside us) as a constant burning flame, that will help to keep us clean after we are baptized. To end... when I was there we prayed a couple of times so he could know if what we were teaching was truth. I did not feel like anything that came out of my mouth that night was from me but that the Holy Ghost was there telling me what to say. It was a great experience.