Frontpage issues

I had someone customized my theme to show a featured post on the front/home page. I want mostly the whole post to show. He used the plugin featured posts (YAFFP) fOR some reason I cant get it to show more of my posts even though I have the max. length to 600 words. Can someone help me with this situation thanks. Here is my site http://www.journeyofablackearedkite.com/.
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I am having a hard time attaching a photo so that a thumbnail can show up with the recent entries.