Ok, it seems that since I had my iCloud contacts toggled on as well, the contacts were being added on that account only. When I turned off google contacts it was showing several contacts still that were under iCloud. Once I turned that off ( I should've saved those contacts), the contact app showed nothing. I then toggled on google contacts and added a contact, refreshed my contacts on my passport and it shows up. So in short ,since I had contacts on on both iCloud and Google, it was just syncing with iCloud ...does this make sense? Lol