Trouble creating and sending email template

I have a weekly email to send. I want the body to contain text (of course), 2 image links and 4 text links. I successfully created the email, added the images with links and set up the text links, or so I thought. The links are the same every week and I update the webpage they link to. So I want to be able to send the email and still have a copy left to be sent the following week.

Right now if I send the email it goes to the sent folder but all the images are removed (prob to save space). Also, while creating the email and formatting it the way I want, when I look in the drafts folder the images are not there.

So... to sum it up I want to create a reusable template with image links

This is what the email should look like. The second image should be smaller but that's something I need to fix.

This is what it looks like in the drafts folder