I'll try and give a distilled version of what happened. :)
A friend of mine and myself went to an Italian restaurant today to eat. Our waiter was a young man, and my friend noticed he had John 3:16 tattooed on his arm. My friend asked him about it and asked him what John 3:16 said just to hear him quote it. So we talked about it a few seconds then ordered our food.
So when my friend asked him about it the first thing obviously that came to me was I wonder if he's baptized in the Holy Spirit. He came and went several times and this was on my mind but honestly I was leaning more to not asking him, well, just the 'fear' factor of it, the devil trying to intimidate me, etc. So the last time he comes back to bring us our checks, I asked him, 'Are you baptized in the Holy Spirit?' He said no, then I asked him if he knew what it was, and he said he didn't. Oh to add, I had asked him where he went to church and it was a baptist church, but he hadn't been in awhile. To be honest even though he had the John 3:16 tattoo, I wasn't all that confident he was saved. But I kept going with the baptism in the Holy Spirit because I knew I could take care of the salvation part when I prayed for him to receive the Holy Spirit.
To make a long story short, I started by saying after the disciples were saved, Jesus told them to wait in Jerusalem until they were given power from heaving by the Holy Spirit coming on them. That's how I segwayed him not knowing about the baptism in the Holy Spirit. To add, they were closing for about an hour and a half due to being short staffed, so that helped him not being antsy about what was going on. But he was very respectful, 'yes sir', 'No sir' when asking him questions.
So he sat down at the end of the table and I took him through a 'sinner's prayer' even though I was ministering the baptism in the Holy Spirit, then prayed for him to receive the Holy Spirit and he did and spoke in tongues.
Let me add this. Anytime I pray for someone to receive the baptism in the Holy Spirit, I always have them repeat a prayer after me for the baptism in the Holy Spirit, but I always start with a 'sinner's prayer' at the beginning of that. I started doing this decades ago when a person wanted me to pray for their son in law to be filled, and just led him in the baptism in the Holy Spirit part of the prayer, and when I laid hands on him it was nothing. Like laying your hand on a doorknob. Well his father was a Baptist minister. After nothing happened, I asked him when he got saved and he said, "I was baptized when I was 5 years old." The Holy Spirit then said to me, 'He's not saved'. So when you ask someone when they got saved, and they tell you when they got baptized, they may not really know about being saved even though their father is a Baptist minister. lol.
So I led him in a 'sinner's prayer', again, the practical aspect of it, then led him in a prayer to be filled again, and when I laid my hands on him this time tongues exploded out of him like it had been shot out of a cannon. So since then, I've always started the prayer they repeat after me to be filled with a 'sinner's prayer' just to make sure they're saved. If they're not, if they're sincere about being filled with the Holy Spirit they're not going to object to that prayer. Also on another practical level, that prayer of forgiveness helps them get a clear conscience to receive the Holy Spirit because many have sin in their life and it takes care of that and makes them more confident to receive.
So again, he received and spoke in tongues. Gave him a little instruction and some things to read in the Bible and we went on our way. Feel fee to ask any question if I didn't cover something you might be wondering about. Praise God!