It appears that if a page has been designed with Elementor, and then that page is referenced in the first Section (where the boxes pop up over the home page slider) the theme brings in alllll the page’s content. See here: https://joycehouckneedlearts.com/
How do I fix this, as I need to use elementor as my page builder.
As we have check the site and seem it is on maintenance mode. The elementor plugin comes with its own html and css so when you added to content in elementor editor it comes with html tags and the excerpt functionality won’t work with html tags. We recommend you to add plain text.