Hi @autumnwhewell,
element positioning is theme dependent. Since Elixir is a premium theme, I suggest you ask your question in the theme’s official support forum at http://www.mojomarketplace.com/item/elixir-premium-wordpress-blog-theme/support, so you can get help from the people who know the theme best.
Forum volunteers are not given access to commercial products, so they would not know why your commercial theme is not working properly. This is one other reason why volunteers forward you to the commercial product’s vendors. The vendors are responsible for supporting their commercial product.