Can no longer send or receive messages on iphone

I sent a message from my iphone 4 last night and it looked as if it had sent but this am, I see it did not send. It showed as 'sending.......' for over an hour. I sent a new message and it then showed sending 1 of 2. I looked at the people I'd sent messages too yesterday and today and they were not showing on the phone. I check imessage on my iMac and the messages that I'd sent up until the last one last night, show on my iMac. I sent a few from my iMac this am and they are not showing on my iphone. I did a hard reset on my phone and my messages start with one yesterday and then Thursday. So it dropped or lossed several messages.
When I looked at my settings, the wifi looks grayed out but it has a check mark next to it.
I don't see any error messages in the phone's settings but I'm not sure where to look either.
I turned off messages in my iphone, let it sit for a few minutes and turned it back on. It took several minutes and then it came back on. I can now send a message but the messages for the past few days are still missing from my iphone. I just sent a message to my daughter and she got it and replied. So it is letting me send now. But I'm wondering where the messages are that should show in my message history and what it means that they are not there.
I've just read a thread of 4s users who cannot use wifi. Is there anything going on with IOS & iphones?
Thanks for any help or information you can share. I am just trying to sort out what might be going on.
Michelle

Try a hard reset, hold down the sleep and home buttons, ignore the red Off slider, wait for the Apple logo, let the buttons go.

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