Speaking in tongues at age 16 was by far the most spiritually transformative experience of my life.
It was an unexpected experience at an outdoor amphitheater during which the Holy Spirit ambushed this skeptical seeking soul. First, I experienced a wind that proved to be the onrushing Spirit. Then, as I spoke in tongues, I was engulfed by wave after wave of liquid love, each wave more intense than the last, until I wondered if I could even survive such awesome overpowering holiness. An eyewitness said she saw my face glowing in the darkening amphitheater where this occurred. A skeptical Lutheran minister approached me, saying he didn't believe in tongues, ;but could see that God doing something special for me. I just touched him gently on the forehead and he just exploded in other tongues.