in 1968 the branch office was transferred from Rio de Janeiro to larger facilities in São Paulo.

It was in 1899 that Sarah Bellona Ferguson, of São Paulo, first received some of the Watch Tower Society’s publications by mail from the United States. As she learned precious Bible truths, she did what she could to share these with others. When the opportunity presented itself after about 25 years, she got baptized.

The ten missionaries then in São Paulo were frequent visitors at the Bible Society’s outlet in that city. The outlet’s Protestant clerks, though, were not happy that the entire stock of the Tradução Brasileira—a Bible version containing the name Jehovah—was moving from their shelves into the missionaries’ book bags. One day the clerk told the missionaries that she could not let them have any more of those Bibles.