Phone number not showing up in Imessage

I use to be able to send receive messages with my Ipad using my phone number instead of my email. Now the phone number isn't even listed anymore. Everything on my Iphone is fine. All my id's are listed on that device. I have done a hard reset on both devices. When I go into setting-imessage-send receive. I only have 1 email listed. Any suggestions on what else to do? I have seen other discussions on this subjet. Many talk about caller Id but I don't see that in my options.
Thanks

Thanks for your help. I had to add one more step to your suggestion. First time around it didn't work. Second time I decided to turn off my wifi and run only on the cell network. That seems to have helped.
Once again thanks for your help

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