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.
Q: [117, 58, 36, 193, 159, 39, 171, 47, 192, 78, 156, 140, 211, 10, 23, 111, 260, 32, 209, 138], k=9
A: 
111