Read or listen to Chiara Garibaldi’s full oral history. Available in English.
I am a member of the church for all my life and both my parents are members. The most appealing factor to me is that the church is honest. I believe that Mormons are more prominent in the United States than in Italy where the majority of the population are Catholic. I have been in Australia for a little bit of time, and I have noticed that people…they do not really care about religion.
My dad, Marco, he is a professor of science and my mum, Sandra, is a nurse who works in the hospital in Italy.
Well, my childhood was fun, it was pretty good. I say that because I had my family and my two siblings. I have two older brothers, Gianni and Pietro. Gianni is twenty-six years old, and Pietro is twenty-eight years old. My grandparents live in a little town close to us…about one hour by car. Primary school was fun because I had a lot of friends. So, we were always together. I always had my cousins to play with. They lived about five minutes away from our house and every Sunday my family would go to my grandparents’ house for lunch.