Epimorphism of sheaves is locally surjective on sections

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Let $\phi:\mathcal{F}\to\mathcal{G}$ be a morphism of sheaves of $R$-modules over a topological space $X$.

I'm aware of the fact that $\phi$ is an epimorphism $\Leftrightarrow \phi_x$ is surjective forall $x\in X$.

I'm trying to prove/disprove the following:

$\phi$ is an epimorphism $\Leftrightarrow $ every $x\in X$ has an open neighbourhood $U\subset X$ such that $\phi_U:\mathcal{F}(U)\to\mathcal{G}(U)$ is surjective.

The converse $(\Leftarrow)$ is easy, since if $\phi_U$ is surjective, clearly $\phi_x$ is surjective and by arbitrariness of $x$, $\phi$ is an epimorphism.

For $(\Rightarrow)$, I don't know if it's possible to find such $U$.

Any suggestions? Is this just false?