Messaging contacts in iPhone5C don't appear under Contacts

I just bought a brand new iPhone 5C - my first iPhone ever. I had a Blackberry before and managed to upload my contacts onto my iMac. They are now nicely sitting " On my iMac" and there is no way I can synch them using Airdrop (won't work between OS and iOS), iCloud (no clue why) or whatever.
So I decided to use old-fashioned handwork: key in my contacts.
I started by saving numbers of people who sent me a text message. This is easy to do and works well within the Messaging app.
But then, if I want to call any of these people, I use the Phone app and click on the little 'contact' icon at the bottom of the keypad - but none of those brand new contacts show up.
When I open Contacts, it is still empty. (yes, I ticked 'show all groups')
The Phone app seems to be connected to this empty Contacts app, whereas the Messaging app seems to be linked to this other mysterious contacts storage 'space'.
I hope I am using the right words.
Interestingly, when in Phone I actually key in the telephone number of one of the people whose number I saved using the messaging app, their name does eventually appear. So why do they not show up as a Contact??
I find this very weird! Where could I possibly find a list of the new contacts that I added manually? The guys at the Apple store raised their eye brows when I showed them and mainly said that there were 'a few issues with iOS7'. Is this one of the issues?
Why have my contacts not been saved under 'Contacts'?
Does anyone recognise this problem?

yep, thanks
but this is not an iCloud issue even though that's why I started to manually key in contacts.
It's an issue of Messenger contacts not showing up under Contacts...

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