Savannah Guthrie vowed to stay strong because she won't let Nancy's kidnappers "take my children's mother from them."

Guthrie told Hoda Kotb that her religious faith is “how I will stay connected to my mom,” alluding to her mother’s experience with loss after the death of her husband, Charles Guthrie, in 1988, when Savannah was 16.

"I saw her belief. I saw her faith. She taught me, she taught all of us," Guthrie said.

"I may not do it as well as her, but I will do it. I will do it for my kids. I will. I will not fall apart. I will not let whoever did this take my children’s mother from them," she added, repeating her pleas for help.

"I will not let them take my joy ... I have no anger in my heart. I have hope in my heart. I have love. But this family needs peace," she said.

"We need an answer, and someone has it in their power to help."

Guthrie has said that whoever kidnapped her mother "will not take my joy."

“My joy will be my answer," she said of her plans to return soon to the "Today" show, which she called “such a place of joy and lightness.”

"And being there is joyful. And when it’s not, I’ll say so."

"I consider this my family, my greater family," she said of the show. "And when times are hard, you want to be with your family. And I want to be with my family. And so, I don’t know if I can do it. I don’t know if I’ll belong anymore.

"But I would like to try. And I’m not going to be the same, but maybe it’s like that old poem: ‘More beautiful in the broken places,'” she added.

Savannah Guthrie said although she's "heartbroken" she refuses to feel self pity as the search for her missing mother continues.

"I don't think we deserve anything more or less than any other person. We don't say why us? Why me, why anything?" the "Today" show host revealed.

"If I say why me for this horrible thing, then I have to say, 'Why me for all the beautiful blessings of my life?'

"I'm grateful for my blessings and I'm heartbroken for this sorrow," she said.

Savannah Guthrie's colleagues fought back their own tears as they announced she will be returning to the NBC's "Today show on Monday, April 6.

"I think a lot of people are wondering, well, when is she coming back? Well, she is coming back to this job that she loves her at 'Today.' And we're glad to say that she will start here ... Monday, April the 6th," fellow "Today" show host Hoda Kotb revealed after part two her emotional interview with Savannah aired Friday.

Co-host Jenna Bush Hager choked up as she said of their colleague, "She has been braver than I can even imagine."

"She has been so vulnerable. I mean, she took her pain, her heart, her faith, her family [and] in the midst of her despair, she laid it on the table for all of us."

"I just love this beautiful place that we call home, where we get to come and be every day," she said of the "Today" show.

"I just wanted to be with my family. They're my family too."

However, the pain of her mom's kidnapping makes it impossible for her to return as if nothing happened.

"I don't know how to come back and I don't know how not to come back," she said, saying she still thinks it is "part of my purpose."

"I don't know if i can do it … but I would like to try," she promised.

"I’m not going to be the same, but maybe it’s like that old poem: ‘More beautiful in the broken places.'”

Guthrie said that she's used her mom's faith to keep her own since her mother Nancy Guthrie was kidnapped.

"God doesn't tell us not to wrestle with [our faith]. This is not some cheap faith, and my mom taught me that. God only requires our authentic presence -- and that he has," she said.

When a friend asked Nancy whether she'd keep her faith, Savannah said she answered, "where else would I go?"

"Faith is how I will stay connected to my mom. God is how I'm holding hands with my mom."

Another part of Savannah Guthrie's heartbreaking interview with her "Today" show colleague Hoda Kotb airs Friday at 7:30 a.m.

On Thursday, another part of her interview aired on NBC. Guthrie recalled where she was the moment she found out her mother was missing and sobbed at the thought of thinking her mom was taken beacuse of her high profile job.

“I’m so sorry, Mommy. I’m so sorry," she sobbed to the camera.

The NBC star gave a gut-wrenching first interview since her 84-year-old mom vanished nearly two months ago, in which she shared her overwhelming guilt related to her mom’s mysterious case.

“It’s too much to bear, to think that I brought this to her bedside … and it’s because of me,” an emotional Guthrie told her morning show co-host Hoda Kotb in the sit-down that aired Thursday.

In the second part of the interview, Guthrie is expected to reveal when she plans to come back to work full time.

Savannah Guthrie is “holding on by a thread” as the search for her mom, Nancy Guthrie, continues, according to a body language expert.

Susan Constantine spoke with Page Six about Savannah’s heart-wrenching appearance with Hoda Kotb on the “Today” show Thursday.

“She remains hopeful,” Constantine claimed, noting that the journalist is “reliant on her Christian faith” and “the support” of Nancy’s local Tucson-area community.

Constantine noted that Savannah is “a strong woman of faith,” but that she appears “vulnerable and deeply saddened.”

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Savannah Guthrie said her missing mother taught her how to be strong and deal with tragedy after her father died while she was growing up.

Nancy Guthrie "showed us how to survive the unimaginable" after her husband, Savannah's dad, died when she was just 46 years old, leaving Nancy without a job and with three kids, Guthrie revealed.

"I remember my mom saying in those early days when daddy died 'you have to get up and decide and do. just decide and do,'" Guthrie said.

She recalled how she's used that message to persevere during the ongoing search for her mom.

"I'm trying to get up and decide and do every day. I've felt terrible grief and felt unfathomable love and comfort," she continued.

"The goodness and kindness of God is remarkable and in equal measure to my sorrow."

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Savannah Guthrie still talks and thinks about her missing mother in the "present tense" -- even though she hasn't been seen or heard from in 54 days.

"My mom is so incredible," Guthrie said about her 84-year-old mom, Nancy.

"She's resolute and strong. A quiet strength, a quiet face," she continued.

"She's funny and a little mischievous in her humor. She's a noble creature, she does what's right, she walks in faith but not fake pious put-on."

Savannah found it unbearable going back to her mom's home, which was her mom's "safe haven."

"I mean, this is the house that we grew up in. It's really the only house I've ever known and remember," the TV anchor said.

"We moved there when I was about 4. It's the house where I came home on a Friday night at 16, and my mom and sister were on the couch praying and told me that my father had died.

"It's the house where all of our memories are. Good and bad. … That's my mom's safe haven."

Savannah Guthrie believes most of the ransom notes were sick fakes -- but two were likely genuine and from her mom's kidnapper.

"There are a lot of different notes, I think that came and I think most of them ... are not real and I didn't see them," the "Today" host said.

"But, you know, a person that would send a fake ransom note ... it really has to look deeply at themselves. Yeah. To a family in pain.

"But I believe the two notes that we received that we responded to. I tend to believe those are real. Really" she said.