How do I restore contacts that vanished?

I have lost contacts the past 2 times I did a sync. Please help me take the right steps to maintain recently input numbers and contacts, along with my text message history. It drives me crazy when this gets wiped out!
Thanks!

go to settings > mail, contacts, and calendars > select add account > then Other > add CardDAV Account >
put in your user name and password for your gmail account. in the area that says "server" put in google.com
that will import your contacts from gmail.

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Hi Norm123
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