Describing that same spirit known to the sons of Mosiah, President Joseph F. Smith, reflecting on that spirit associated with his own baptism, recalled:
“The feeling that came upon me was that of pure peace, of love and of light. I felt in my soul that if I had sinned-and surely I was not without sin-that it had been forgiven me; that I was indeed cleansed from sin; my heart was touched, and I felt that I would not injure the smallest insect beneath my feet. I felt as if I wanted to do good everywhere to everybody and to everything. I felt a newness of life, a newness of desire to do that which was right. There was not one particle of desire for evil left in my soul.”
(Gospel Doctrine, p. 96.)