Good Morning Karen,
Great question. The Home Top and Home Bottom widget areas are made to work with the Home page template. If you’d like to use that template (it’s the one being used by the other elf), first edit your home page. Then look in the right hand column and you’ll see a drop-down menu for templates. Choose the Home template and update your page. That should bring up the Home Top and Home Bottom widget areas for you.
If you need to include the content you’ve added in your current home page you can do that. There is a Page Content widget that you can add to the Home Bottom sidebar. Just select your home page as the source and your home page’s content will be displayed in that widget.
If you have any questions or trouble, let me know.
Thanks,
Bill