Delete the Contact app, how is this possible?

both my ios devices show my contacts app as installing, waiting for the download to start. like they were normal apps, not one of apples.
If I tap and hold on the app, it lets me delete it. I did this on the iPhone after doing a phone restore did not fix the issue. I know everyone says it can't be done because it's an apple app, but I did. I got the warning about deleting this app will delete it's information, etc... I went ahead with it as nothing else has worked up to this point. (and yes, the apps that rely on the data still have access to that data it seems)
my question is two fold, how is this possible? And how do I get it back?
thanks
jason

Trust me, this is NOT an app downloaded from the App Store. i put all my 'apple' apps together in one folder by group/type. Nothing else goes in those folders. And it had the icon of the contacts app. It was also the only one of those to show a "waiting..." And icon greyed out like the App Store was trying to update it.
I get no results in a spotlight search. Tried that Before I posted.
I have had iOS devices for many years, ipad from day 1! so I know this is truly the contacts app from apple and thus I am truly perplexed that it let me do this.
any more thoughts or ideas?.
thanks
jason
p.s. Same thing is happening on my iPad, here is the screen shot of the folder with the contacts icon saying waiting. I verified in the iPhone users guide that this definitely the icon for the apple contacts app. Saying waiting, not contacts.

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