Contacts entered on iPhone 4s suddenly missing, present on iCloud - how to recover?

Wife's iPhone 4s has out-of-date Yahoo contacts, but is suddenly missing all of the contact information she has entered on the iPhone itself.
iCloud sync is currently disabled - apparently by default when upgraded to iOS 7? - but when we login to iCloud, most or all of the contacts she entered are available.  (Latest sync w iCloud may be a couple of months ago; latest sync with iTunes on Macbook Pro was over 2 years ago, so no joy there.)
How to safely recover contacts from iCloud back to iPhone, without resetting iPhone?
Concerns:
(1) Clearly if we reset the iPhone, it would restore from iCloud - but would also lose text conversations, at least the ones that happened since the last sync.
(2) If we simply re-enable iCloud sync, will missing contacts be copied from iCloud to phone?  or will they instead be deleted from iCloud, because they were seemingly "removed" from phone after latest sync?
(3) Do we need to delete all contacts from phone, then enable iCloud sync?  But see concern #2! - and also, will deleting Yahoo contacts from phone delete them from Yahoo too?
Any advice or procedural pointers greatly appreciated - thanks!

First check that all your settings are correct, that contact syncing is checked on all devices (system preferences > iCloud on a mac and settings > iCloud on a iPhone, iPad or iPod).
Make sure the contacts you are adding are added to your 'iCloud' group and not an 'On My Mac', 'On My Phone' or other non iCloud group (you can do this by checking in groups), non iCloud contacts will not sync.
If you are sure that everything is set up correctly and your contacts are in the iCloud group, you might try unchecking contact syncing in the iCloud settings, restarting your device and then re-enabling contact syncing.

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