Android : Activity's savedInstanceState() not being called when going to new Activity via ActionBar

Any Help would be appreciated because I am almost finished and this one little thing is bugging me so much!

I have 1 of three activities that in onCreate() it populates a TextView from a query of a database. This activity is also the main activity. The other 2 activities you travel through via the action Bar like the code below shows. I have both savedInstanceState() and onRestoreInstanceState() in play here and they only work when you exit out of the application completely, which is good but I also want it so that when you go to another Activity from the actionBar then the TextView will still be the same.

I tried using the finish() and the onStop() methods to help terminate the activity so that saveOnInstanceState() would be called when the Activity is destroyed but it either isn't working or I am not placing it in the right place. Any Thoughts Please?!?!?!

applying savedInstanceState in onCreate():

if(savedInstanceState != null){
        String SavedStory = savedInstanceState.getString(SavedStoryHere);
        String SavedTitle = savedInstanceState.getString(SavedTitleHere);
        OpenningTextView.setText(SavedStory);
        TitleTextView.setText(SavedTitle);
    }
    else{
        OpenningTextView.setText(StoryText);
        TitleTextView.setText(TitleString);
    }

The onSavedInstanceState() and the onRestoreInstanceState():

protected void onSaveInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onSaveInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
    String text = OpenningTextView.getText().toString();
    String titleText = TitleTextView.getText().toString();
    savedInstanceState.putString(SavedStoryHere, text);
    savedInstanceState.putString(SavedTitleHere, titleText);
}

protected void onRestoreInstanceState(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
    super.onRestoreInstanceState(savedInstanceState);
    OpenningTextView.setText(savedInstanceState.getString(SavedStoryHere));
    TitleTextView.setText(savedInstanceState.getString(SavedTitleHere));        
}

Going to Different Activities via the ActionBar:

public boolean onOptionsItemSelected(MenuItem item) {
    switch (item.getItemId()){
        case R.id.Openning_Screen:
            Toast.makeText(this, "This is the Story of the Day", Toast.LENGTH_SHORT)
             .show();
            return true;
        case R.id.The_List:
            Intent A_ListIntent = new Intent(this, A_Where_List.class);
            startActivity(A_ListIntent);
            return true;
        case R.id.Settings:
            Intent SavedStoriesIntent = new Intent(this, Settings.class);
            startActivity(SavedStoriesIntent);
            return true;
        default:
            return super.onOptionsItemSelected(item);
    }