Phyllis,
I think we all worry at some time or another that God has not given of His Holy Spirit to us personally. It is my understanding that God is working in every life, yours, mine, sinner and saint. Thank God, for my works are filthy rags! He is the creator, and He also provided a life's lesson plan for each person. If you ask, seek, and knock He is faithful to fulfill the receiving, finding, and opening. He will never forsake you. His faith is so much greater than ours. It looks like He has opened a door for you because you asked and sought as is in His will. Praise God! As to knowing if you have received the Holy Spirit, I suppose you just have to believe that what He said He will do. We are to be Believers and Doers of that one Faith. I have finished with my trying to work my flesh up to the emotional feelings, babblings, hand raising, man-worship etc., to the point of nausea associated with "evidence of the Holy Spirit" according to the traditions of man. Listening to the still small Voice of God as you wait patiently for Him to show you His will is the better way for me. God bless you as you knock on that door.
I have been thinking on this statement and the whole couple of "faith" chapters by Paul to the Hebrews about believing and doing:
Heb 10:36
36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.
(KJV)
Rest in the Lord,
Barbara