Hello there, welcome to the Scripture Study Project, our podcast dedicated to helping you

discover the scriptures in a fresh way, invest your mind and heart into your personal study,

and connect to God in your everyday life. We are your host, Krista and Zach Horton,

and we're here this week to study with you in the scriptures.

Surprise.

Surprise.

Sections 111 through 114.

We are titling this episode after the word in the first verse of section 111 fall leaves

or folly it kind of sounds like you're saying fall leaves fall well it is fall and we are seeing

leaves turning color so you guys I tried to kind of get Zach off track by saying something

different to the beginning he just plowed right through. There was

nothing getting through. We want to talk about mistakes, our mistakes, reframing the way that we view

our own mistakes and hopefully maybe preventing some future mistakes. And you called them fallies,

not to be confused with fall leaves because of some of the phrasing

that turns up in the scriptures this week.

So we'll be excited to discuss that a little more as Folly is not usually a word we use

to talk about mistakes, at least today.

Well, maybe that's a good place to start is a definition of the word folly. So in the 1828

Webster's Dictionary, which is the dictionary of the day Joseph Smith was writing and translating,

I looked up the word folly and there's a couple of different definitions, but some that stood out to me.

One was a want of

understanding, and another one was a weak or absurd act, not highly criminal. And you get the sense

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