In Ether
5:4, we read the following:
And in the mouth of three witnesses shall
these things be established; and the testimony of three, and this work, in the
which shall be shown forth the power of God and also his word, of which the
Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost bear record-- and all this shall stand
as a testimony against the world at the last day.
This is good
text to show that the Book of Mormon teaches that the Holy Spirit is not just
"personal" but a person. Just as the Father and Son are independent
witnesses, so, too, is the Holy Spirit (or "Holy Ghost" as in the
text), which would require personality. This passage, in many respects, mirrors Acts 13:1-2, one of the better texts from the New Testament about the personality of the Holy Spirit.
