Elkanah went to Ramah to his house. The child did minister to Yahweh before Eli the priest.
Of great interest is the refusal of Eli to do anything about his reprobate sons and their illegal, wicked and immoral behavior in the sacred precincts of the tabernacle itself.  Oh yes, we learn a little later that he "rebuked them," but that was by no means the type of treatment that those evil men deserved.