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: [262, 175, 116, 233, 122, 247, 267, 286, 13, 74, 28, 145, 126, 205, 165, 259, 238, 76, 81, 177], k=9
A: 
145