New to Zoom

Hello....I'am new to zoom, i,m not good at this sort of thing, so looking for abit of help 🙂 so i kind of have the jist on how to schedule a meeting, but how do i go about connecting to the meeting? it does ask for a meeting I.D, i do have a link being sent to me but not to 12 hours prior to my meeting would i have to wait for the link to be sent? would be grateful for any help and advise 🙂