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Watch: Country Star Shares How Listening to the Book of Mormon Changed His Life

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The Book of Mormon has changed the lives of many, including Nashville Tribute Band's Tim Gates. 

In a new mormon.org video, Gates says his mom surprised him one day when he turned on his car radio to find a Book of Mormon CD playing instead of country music. He kept listening to the Book of Mormon, and as time went on, Gates says he found himself taking longer ways to work or just going for an extra drive to listen to the scriptures. 

"When I listened to George Strait sing, I wanted so bad to sing like him," Gates says. "But when I put that Book of Mormon in my CD player, I wanted so badly to be like these great men. . . . It changed my life."

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