Instructions: 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: [259, 165, 88, 210, 274, 114, 244, 263, 162, 54, 179, 18, 148, 58, 94, 234, 68, 108, 95, 209], k=8
Output:
108