What do Mormons believe about the Holy Sirit?

A Different Holy Spirit

Whether or not the Holy Spirit of Mormonism is a person or a fluid not depends upon which Mormon source you choose to
quote. The Holy Spirit of Mormonism is only able to be in one place at a time. God the Holy Spirit of the Bible is a person
and he can be in more than one place at a time.

Messages of the First Presidency, Vol.2, p.237
"Man has been accustomed to associate wisdom, knowledge, love, joy, and all the other faculties and passions, with an
organized being or personality. Therefore, when he is informed that the Holy Spirit possesses all these attributes, he, from
habit, supposes it to be a person; but there is no necessary connection between these attributes and a personality. Indeed,
there is no reason why these attributes may not also belong to a fluid substance.

Reynolds and Sjodahl,
Commentary on the Book of Mormon, Vol. 4, p.360
[p.360] The Holy Spirit. But, according to the Book of Mormon, as well as other scripture, there is also a Holy Spirit, sometimes
called the Holy Ghost, which is not a person, but rather a divine essence, a force, or fluid--for want of a better term--which
permeates all that exists.

Bruce R. McConkie,
Mormon Doctrine, p.358 HOLY GHOST
The Holy Ghost is the third member of the Godhead. He is a Personage of Spirit, a Spirit Person, a Spirit Man, a Spirit Entity.
He can be in only one place at one time and he does not and cannot transform himself into any other form or image than that of
the Man whom he is, though his power and influence can be manifest at one and the same time through all immensity. (D. & C.
130:22-23; Teachings, p. 190, 275-276; Gospel Doctrine, 5th ed., pp. 59-62.) (no other image than that of man see Mk.1:10,
JN.1:32

The Holy Spirit is a person. There is not a verse that directly states that the Holy Spirit is a person. However there are
passages that attribute things that are applied only to a person and not to a force or power.

The Holy Spirit is referred to as "He" and He teaches. Jn.14:26, 1 Jn.2:27

The Holy Spirit is referred to as "He" and convicts the world of sin. Jn. 16:7-8

The Holy Spirit speaks, Acts 4:8, 8:29, 10:19, 13:2, Heb.3:7

The Holy Spirit intercedes, Rom.8:26

The Holy Spirit leads and directs, Gal.5:18, Acts 16:6

The Holy Spirit appoints men to service, Acts 13:2, Acts 20:28

The Holy Spirit bears witness of Jesus, Jn.15:26

The Holy Spirit can be grieved, Eph 4:30

The Holy Spirit is called God and he can be lied to, Acts 5:3-4

The Holy Spirit can be insulted and blasphemed, Heb.10:29, Mt.12:31

These types of references are only applied to a person with a personality. These are not references that one would use for a
force or power.

The Holy Spirit can be in more than one place at a time. Here again there is not a verse that states this directly, but it is
implied.

John 14:16 "And I will ask the Father, and He will give you another Helper, that He may be with you forever;

John 14:26 "But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, He will teach you all things, and bring to your
remembrance all that I said to you.

Jesus told his disciples that the Holy Spirit would be with them forever. Certainly Jesus knew that all of the disciples would not
stay grouped together forever. The only way that the Holy Spirit could do this is to be in more than one place at once. This is an
attribute of God that the Father, Jesus & the Holy Spirit all posses since the 3 constitute only one God.
As far as the Holy Spirit being referred to as a "fluid" there is no passage in the Bible that gives a hint of any such
thing. This comes only from the minds and imagination of the L.D.S authorities.