Definition: In this task, you are given a list of integers and an integer k. You need to find the kth smallest element in the input list and return that.
Input: [235, 118, 154, 225, 98, 42, 134, 239, 60, 174, 141, 243, 206, 75, 241, 195, 262, 211, 258, 144], k=19
Output:
258