That's great to hear! Now you know.
Water Baptism is a great great thing "I will do whatever you want me to do God and to show you, Watch this!"
Lol. (-;
Denominations tend to have very firm and disparate views of what the Spirit baptism is, so it's good to just listen to all the approaches and then decide what is scriptural and of God.
Some fellowships will get crazy over insisting people must speak in tongues to prove that God dwells in them. It is not scriptural to treat a gift and a phenomenon as a standard or measure.
The water baptism, as shown above, is a public and formal statement of your intents. You tell God and man that you're serious.
Notice that when Jesus chose to get water baptised, the Spirit descended like a dove.
The Holy Spirit is not a commodity to be weighed and traded and assessed. The Spirit is part of the triune God. We treat the Father with awe, but tend to demean or compartmentalize this part of God that is so fluid and intangible.
Jesus promised that when he left earth, He would send the Comforter, who would lead us to understanding.
John 14
In Greek,
comforter/par-ak'-lay-tos was used to describe a legal advocate.
http://studylight.org/lex/grk/view.cgi?number=3875
Ac 2:38 - In Context
Greek Peter said to them, "Repent, and each of you be baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Mr 1:8 "I baptized you with water; but He will baptize you with the Holy Spirit."
Ac 1:5 for John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now."
Ac 11:16 "And I remembered the word of the Lord, how He used to say, `John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.'
1Co 12:13 For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body, whether Jews or Greeks, whether slaves or free, and we were all made to drink of one Spirit.
It is the same God that dwells in you, the same Spirit. But people found a distinct difference between committing themselves to God for salvation, and allowing Him to work through them for the building up of other people.
God did some crazy things that most people would not normally feel comfortable with. These results strengthened faith, brought more people to connect with God, and gave insight. God continues to work in this way, if we let Him.
One difference between the two baptisms -- when we get water baptised, we usually
tell God we are committed... when we get Spirit baptised, we
ask God to be more involved. Both involve yielding, but in a different way. Water baptism seems to be more of a begging to be accepted into His kingdom; Spirit baptism is sort of a "now that I'm here, I want to be involved."
Ask, seek, knock.
But I don't think the two are necessarily separate for each person. It's the same God dwelling in us.