Either you misunderstood what the financial advisor said or the financial advisor is confused. (I suspect the latter.) QCDs always are excluded from your AGI. The fact that there was an intervening distribution that was not a QCD is entirely irrelevant to the tax treatment of the distributions.
Also, to be a QCD it doesn't matter whether the distribution counts against your RMD or not, although in this case you've mentioned distributions totaling only 68% of your RMD, they all count against your RMD. The only requirements to be a QCD is that the money be transferred directly to the charity by the IRA trustee, that you are age 70½ or over at the time of the distribution from the IRA, that the charitable contribution would meet the requirements to be reportable as a deductible contribution on Schedule A were it not fro the fact that it was a QCD, and your total QCDs for the year do not exceed $100,000.
