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This video explains the titles / meta description issue even better, I think.
Page Title Tag Best Practice for Google

Hey!

I did not fix this, but perhaps our problem isn’t that big ??
I’m not sure if the meta description in the body has any effect at all – neither good nor bad.

I started to read more into the SEO-google-meta-setup. From what I understand googles own setup; their-google-bot algorithm relates and ranks what it thinks is the best result in relation to the typed keyword you are saerching for (and of course many other parameters, hits, external links etc.). This means it can be very difficult to control what exactly google will show in the search result. The meta description from the seo can easily be overwritten by google, if the google-bot find other sentence(s) or keyword(s), that fits and ranks better with the search result. Especially the ranking is important.

A good test.
Test how your latest description of your page is indexed by google by typing: “site:yourpage.com” in the google serach bar.
This will return what google has indexed of your site.
In my case it shows the description from yoast-meta. What’s a bit confusing is, when I search for my site typing some relevant keywords in google, I might get other results for the meta-snippet than the yoast meta description. But again, this is where google affects the results with other parameters. So either you just rewrite your meta description, so it contains the right keywords in relation to your title, and other words on your page = the best possible meta description. ??

To sum up: The meta description from yoast will work, even though it is showing up twice, but the quality of the meta description might not be strong enough, for google to show it with your title.

Google have tons of machine power that tries to crawl all pages as fast as possible and put them into their index, but this might take a while for them to do even though they are fast!
The best way to help yourself and google is to follow the steps in this article:

index-your-content-faster-with-the-fetch-as-google-tool

If you are having trouble with old pages showing up on google, that does not excist any more, this might help you, but be careful not to delete the current page ??
Remove old or deleted information from Google

To help you understand more about meta description and search result google and other sites has provided a lot of very informative articles. They might overlap, but reading them all, helps you understand it better I think:

Improve-snippets-with-meta-description

Review your page titles and snippets

Meta tags that Google understands

Improve snippets with a meta description makeover

Meta Description by Moz

In this article, dont get confused about the ‘duplicate meta description‘ in relation to our problem. I think this argument has to do with pages and posts not having the same meta description = duplicate meta description.
Matt Cutts Answers If Every Page Needs To Have A Unique Meta Description

Last but not least, follow yoast’ own guide to setup their plugin and your site/theme. This is of course obligatory and very good reading as always from the yoast team:
Yoast own guide
=> The importance of having the right order in your theme. What will be showing first!