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: [261, 53, 110, 80, 257, 117, 112, 45, 21, 74, 68, 72, 63, 152, 141, 246, 47, 262, 189, 103], k=6
A: 
68