What is meant by 'pause' when async function await expression 'pauses' execution?

I am very new to the concept of asyncronicity in Javascript and I wanted to make sure I am not misinterpreting what I am reading.

Consider this pseudo code in some Angular app:

async ngOnInit() {

this.responseObject = await this.myService.myGetRequest();

//do some more stuff down here

}


My understanding is that the ngOnInit() will 'pause' or stop execution at await, and NOT execute the code below that line until the promise object(data) is returned? Correct?

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