Async function isn't behaving as intended in Django websocket consumer

I'm having some trouble with my django consumer for a game I'm making. The problem arises specifically when calling handle_timer in handle_round() from the loop in start_game(), update_timer isn't called until after the loop finishes. Why? Can you help me understand why this delay is occurring?

async def start_game(self):
    #self.words = await bot.get_words(self.room.category, self.room.rounds)
    self.words = ['worxd' for round in range(self.room.rounds)]
    #self.words = json.loads(self.words)

    print(self.words)
    i = 1

    for word in self.words:
        print('Iteration', i)
        await self.handle_round(word)
        i += 1

async def handle_round(self, word_to_guess):
    # Mark the current active round as inactive
    if self.current_round:
        self.current_round.is_active = False
        await database_sync_to_async(self.current_round.save)()

    # Create a new round
    await database_sync_to_async(Round.objects.create)(
        word=word_to_guess, 
        time_left=self.room.guess_time, 
        room=self.room,
    )
    
    self.current_round = await self.get_current_round()
    print('Current round', self.current_round)

    await self.update_game_state()
    await self.handle_timer()

# Handle timer
async def handle_timer(self):
    print('handle_timer')
    if self.room and self.player and self.current_round:
        # Broadcast the initial timer value to the room
        await self.channel_layer.group_send(
            self.room_group_name,
            {
                'type': 'update_timer',
                'time': self.current_round.time_left,
            }
        )

async def update_timer(self,event):
   print('update_timer')
   asyncio.ensure_future(self.update_timer_helper(event))

Terminal output:

Iteration 1
Current round Round in <coroutine object Round.get_room at 0x0000018905541000>
handle_timer
Iteration 2
Current round Round in <coroutine object Round.get_room at 0x0000018905117E60>
handle_timer
update_timer
update_timer

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