Any suggestions would be appreciated!Thank you.
Somehow, I doubt that the suggestion that you have some patience is going to be appreciated. Bumping a thread after 4 hours is silly.
Let me know what I should do next.
That really depends on what you want to do. What is it you want to do?
Why are you echoing everything that the transmitter receives? If there is any reason for the sender to be sending the data, you should be reading it and doing something about it. Those first 6 lines in loop() are fine for determining that the XBee is configured properly. Once you know that they are, delete them.