Home Page is Wrong

If you want to show complete posts on your home page, see if your theme includes a file called home.php. If it does, check that file. If it doesn’t check index.php. Check the WordPress loop code (in a plain text editor) and change it from the_excerpt to the_content.

Thank you. that helped out. Now the problem i have is that I can’t get my widget to show up in the right hand column. I have it set up in the widget area but it’s not showing up next to the post on the right. What confuses me further is that it appears I have two different pages with the same content. I would like to have just one and that be my home page.